[This is] the procedure for those who are burned: They place him in manure up to his knees, and place a coarse scarf inside a soft one and wind it around his neck. This one pulls toward himself and this one pulls toward himself until he opens his mouth. One melts a bar [of lead] and pours it into his mouth; and it descends into his bowels and burns his intestines. R’ Yehudah says: If he dies in their hands they have not fulfilled the commandment of burning. Rather, they force open his mouth with tongs; one melts the bar and pours it into his mouth, and it descends into his bowels and burns his intestines. Said R’ Elazar ben Tzadok: It once occurred with the daughter of a Kohen that she committed adultery, and they surrounded her with bundles of branches and burned her. They said to him: Because the court at that time was not expert.

[This is] the procedure for those who are beheaded: They decapitate him with a sword, in the manner in which the government does. R’ Yehudah says: This is a disgrace. Rather, they place his head on a block and cut it off with an axe. They said to him: There is no more disgraceful manner of death than this.  [This is] the procedure for those who are strangled: They place him in manure up to his knees, and place a coarse scarf inside a soft one and wind it around his neck. This one pulls toward himself and this one pulls toward himself until his life departs.