Is it significant that Jesus was “crucified” instead of dying some other way?

• Bible Verses about Jesus being cursed in my place

Lord’s Day 15: Q & A 39

Q. Is it significant that [Jesus] was “crucified” instead of dying some other way?

A. Yes. By this I am convinced that he shouldered the curse which lay on me, since death by crucifixion was cursed by God.

Heidelberg Catechism

Bible Verses about Jesus being cursed in my place

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”

Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—”

(Galatians 3:10–13, ESV)

And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God.

You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

(Deuteronomy 21:22–23, ESV)