Crucifixion, if handled correctly, can be a long and agonising death last ing several days, and the rotting corpses would have stayed strung up for much longer than that. In 73 BC, 6,000 rebels were crucified on the orders of the victorious Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus at regular intervals along the Appian Way, between the Campanian city of Capua and Rome.
