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Many pirates of the golden age were former sailors. As you know, shipping has many traditions, most of them supported by fleets from different countries. When sailors became pirates, they kept some old traditions and created several new ones. For example, like legitimate fleets, pirates marked their ships.
It wouldn’t even be strange if executions also have their own traditions. Walking on the board is described in more than one book and portrayed in more than one movie. It seems to be a very cruel way to kill a person, which is great for pirates. Also, the prisoner who walks on the board is still ridiculed by the entire pirate crew. Historically, however, there have been very few such cases: pirates do not have time to organize such executions.
The butcher Georgeas Wood told the prison in 1769 that he and his companions had forced his ship’s officers to come aboard. John Derdrake, who pirated the Baltic Sea in the 18th century, sang to his victims so often. In 1822, British Captain William Smith was forced to board the Spanish pirate ship. In 1829, pirates captured a Dutch ship and killed most of the crew forcing the men on board. There were more such cases, but they were still rare. Pirates generally killed their victims with swords and less often with swords on the mast.
This is a slow and ineffective method of execution. The person is tied up, a weight (cannonball) is often placed on him, and he is encouraged to go for the sword with a sword. In this way fear, the anticipation of death and, finally, the desperate agony of the drowned are intertwined.
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