So are we all agreed that sawing....

[HateSolstice]

The person in the Brazen Bull would boil in their own skin from their bodily fluids heating up. There wouldn't be smoke inside until their flesh began to cook, which would happen after their fluids boiled over and ripped their skin apart. They'd likely die from being cooked inside their own skin before choking to death on smoke.

Being cut in twain from the groin would be the most painful for several minutes, but you'd very quickly lose enough blood to die or pass out long before they got far. On top of that, nerve endings would be severed and endorphins and adrenaline would be coursing through your body so heavily that the pain would subside fairly quickly, but probably JUST before you were dead.

To me, the cradle was the worst. The mechanism used to lower you down on the point could be used to situate you however they pleased. Often they placed you either on your chest, back, or backside. Slowly breaking and spliting you.

Could be worse though. They could have used the rack, slowly stretching you while cutting you and removing your intestines while you watch.

Honestly though, I'd rather just take a fucking bullet to the temple, or be hanged. Quick snap of the neck and you feel nothing.