“Crucifixion was an agonizingly slow punishment. It proved fatal, not so much due to loss of blood, since the wounds in the hands and feet did not lacerate any large vessel and were nearly closed by the nails which produced them, but
“Crucifixion was an agonizingly slow punishment. It proved fatal, not so much due to loss of blood, since the wounds in the hands and feet did not lacerate any large vessel and were nearly closed by the nails which produced them, but