What is an "ignominious death"? Alma 1:15

What is an "ignominious death"? Alma 1:15

Nehor killed Gideon, an innocent man. He is tried before Alma. He gets the death penalty. He's taken to a hill named Manti and "there he suffered an ignominious death."

Synonyms for ignominious are disgraceful, embarrassing, shameful, dishonorable, discreditable, and inglorious.

Answer:
Maybe they stripped him naked and hanged him or crucified him or something like that. Maybe calling it ignominious was Mormon's way of censoring the ignominiousness of it. #howmanytimescanIsayignominiousinasentence

Tangent: in the medieval (and actually, not so medieval...) Czech lands people were hanged on hills. They were sometimes marked on the old 17th-18th century maps, too. Sometimes you can see that the marking on the map shows multiple nooses. It is really creepy!