There is a method of execution known as pressing, which was the crushing of someone under immense weight. One famouse example occurred during the Salem which trials where a man, not a woman, got so sick of salems bullshit that the refused to talk when questioned and so the town tried to get a confession out of him buy stacking rocks on top of him, with the only respons being “more weight”. He eventually died from the crushing pressure of the rocks. Another famouse example involves an elephant crushing a person, though it was common to crush the limbs then the head.