WI: Romans use impalement rather than crucifiction?

Nonsense. Suspend him in the air, get a wooden stake(obviously, a large one), and have 4-6 Roman Soldiers charge at him. They then hoist him up.
AFAIK they tried not to injure internal organs in order to keep impaled alive as long as possible, so this was harder than crusifiction.
 
If jesus was impaled, then they 'probably' would have left his body to rot on the stakes, making reserection unlikely.
it's not like it would be easy to remove a full grown man, bleeding from his mouth and... ahem, and bury/entomb/whatever him

Well, the standard practice of the Romans was to leave the executed person to rot on the cross as well; Pilate made an exception to help keep the peace during passover.

Considering the trauma that had been done to Jesus, I suspect he was pretty much bleeding everywhere. Read as historical texts, the Gospels make it clear that Jesus was probably in worse than average shape by the time he was crucified (hence his only lasting 3 hours).

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Bill
 
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