BUrning
Burning was one of the worst ways to die because the victim of the crime would be alive during the whole process. It was so bad that many could not stand to watch. The executioner would feel empathy and ease some of the pain by speeding up the process using gun powder at the base of the stake. Sometimes the executioner would not feel the need to make the process short but instead let the suffering be extreme with the victims only hope being that they suffocate to death from all the smoke being burned around. Since this punishment is very gruesome it was for crimes seen as the worst in the Elizabethan era.