Nails used for crucifixion – the method of capital punishment by which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang until death
Just a beam? Not a shape called a cross?
A crossbar is unecessary materials even if you are going to reuse the structure for future executions.
Crucifixion is death by slow asphyxiation. Hands/arms had to be tied spread out. Once the arms and legs were bound in that position the chest feels like it's being crushed. As a matter of fact if asphyxiation was too slow the legs were then broken to create more pressure to the chest area. Cross shape is critical.
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> Nails used for crucifixion – the method of capital punishment by which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang until death
Crucifixion etymology: mid-14c., "to put to death by nailing or otherwise affixing to a cross," from Old French crucifer crucefiier (12c., Modern French crucifier), from Vulgar Latin *crucificare, from Late Latin crucifigere "to fasten to a cross," from cruci, dative of Latin crux "cross" (see crux) + figere "to fasten, fix" (from PIE root *dheigw- "to stick, fix").
otherwise affixing to a cross
We agree? They say a beam. You use a cross, a beam is useless. Now a spike. That would work.
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