 The torture of war captives by the tribes of the Eastern Woodlands cultural region also seems to have had sacrificial motivations.See Captives in American Indian Wars

The Incas practiced human sacrifice, especially at great festivals or royal funerals where retainers died to accompany the dead into the next life.The Moche of Eastern Peru sacrificed teenagers en masse, as archaeologist Steve Bourget found when he uncovered the bones of 42 male adolescents in 1995.