Morbid Fact Du Jour For December 11, 2009
Today’s Slow Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Ling Chi – execution by slow cutting – was practiced in China until it was outlawed in 1905. In the execution, the criminal is slowly cut in the arms, legs, and chest, until finally they are beheaded or stabbed in the heart. Many western accounts of the execution method are largely exaggerated, with some claiming that the execution could take days to perform.
One modern eyewitness report from Journalist and Politician Henry Norman, describes an execution thus:
“The criminal is fastened to a rough cross, and the executioner, armed with a sharp knife, begins by grasping handfuls from the fleshy parts of the body, such as the thighs and the breasts, and slicing them off. After this he removes the joints and the excrescences of the body one by one-the nose and ears, fingers and toes. Then the limbs are cut off piecemeal at the wrists and the ankles, the elbows and knees, the shoulders and hips. Finally, the victim is stabbed to the heart and his head cut off.”
Culled from: ListVerse.Com
Generously submitted by: Jason T.
I can think of few deaths that would be more horrible than this. And here’s a particularly gruesome image of the result of one such execution. Gimme the electric chair anyday!!!
Ouch! I have a very hard time believing that somebody would survive “several days” of this treatment. Most likely they would die of shock and/or blood loss before the final “mercy cut” was given.
One would hope so, anyway.
This poor woman! I learned that the victims were drugged with opium through-out (at least one could only hope so). The invented evils of man never fail to astound me. And his willingness to go to any depravity in a strange twisted attempt to inflict his ego on to others is the saddest thing of all.
This method of Death By A Thousand Cuts (for that is what this execution was called) is renowned for taking a very long time. The process included flaying layers off, and a carving and slicing as well as chopping.
yes victims drinking drugged water but it dosen’t mean mercy bcs while torture going on victim shouldn’t faint or shock by pain he or she should see how executioner cutting his/her body!!