Too Hot to Handle

George Dozsa was a Transylvanian nobleman and man-at-arms back in the late 1400’s. He led a peasants revolt against the nobility, and was executed in the strangest of ways. A handful of his followers were imprisoned and starved, while he was tortured. They made him hold a glowing hot metal sceptre in his hand, while sitting on a glowing hot metal throne, wearing a glowing hot metal crown. Then they brought his hungry followers and used hot pliers and knives to take pieces off of him and fed them to his starving compatriots, while he was still alive. Not over the top at all.