Staked

From antiquity to modern times:
Depiction of impalement on a Neo-Assyrian relief from the reign of Sennacherib.
A stele of Sennacherib orders that builders who build their house in a royal road should be hung on a stake above their house.
The impalement and flaying of rebels is first documented under the Assyrian king Assur-bel-kala. According to Herodotus, impalement was also known as a punishment among the Achaemenids.
In the Middle Ages, impalement was widespread in Europe and was referred to by the people as "riding on a one-legged horse". In addition to burial alive, impalement also became part of criminal law.
In the Middle Ages, the Eastern European variant of impalement was considered particularly cruel, as the Romanian prince Vlad III Draculea is said to have practised it - largely in line with the Assyrian model.
Under the rule of the Ottoman Pasha Osman Pazvantoglu in Vidin (1789-1807), arnauts (Albanian mercenaries) were impaled in front of the population to spread fear and terror.