
A head crusher was a medieval torture device. The metal device featured a plate that sat below the victims’ jaw, which was connected by a frame to the head cap. The cap could be screwed down at the whim of the torturer. The victims’ head would slowly be crushed killing the victim, but not before the victims jaw had been crushed, and their eyes had popped from their sockets.

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