Walking the plank
Form of execution for pirates at sea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Walk the plank" redirects here. For other uses, see Walk the Plank (disambiguation).
Walking the plank was a method of execution practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators and the psychological torture of the victims, captives were bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship.
Although forcing captives to walk the plank has been a motif of pirates in popular culture since the 19th century, few instances are documented.[1]