It was a messy, intentionally humiliating death, but, by the standards of its era, mercifully quick.

Promise them good treatment and food, and release after their usefulness is done-and immediate and humiliating death if they do not serve.

Torture, a confession extracted, and certain humiliating death.

Clarence feels that had the elephants trampled him, let alone while relieving himself, it would have been a humiliating death.

Once a would-be rebel had told all he knew, he could be put to so humiliating a death that he could never make a proper martyr.

He dies the death of a criminal, the most humiliating death known to the world at that time.

That would be the ultimate humiliating death, like being savaged by a sheep or drowning in a puddle.

How many gruesome, lonely and humiliating deaths?

He was killed, or committed suicide to avoid a more humiliating death, after the Marians took Rome in 87 BC.

The city loses Devdas but the village too refuses to accept him even in his ignominious, humiliating death.