The death penalty is one of the oldest penalties in the world. The death penalty existed as early as the beginning of civilization, but now nearly half of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty, and the countries that retain the death penalty also have serious crimes. Crimes are executed when they are extremely cruel and have a very bad social impact. There are two main ways to execute the death penalty, one is the death penalty by injection and the other is the shooting.
In ancient times, there were many ways to execute the death penalty, and many of them were extremely bloody and cruel. First of all, the main way to execute the death penalty was beheading. A criminal who commits a crime and constitutes a capital crime.
Generally speaking, these prisoners will have to wait until after the autumn to ask for the execution. There are many records of "autumn and winter executions" in history. The great scholar Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty wrote in "Chun Qiu Fan Lu": "The king is worthy of the sky. Tao. There are four o'clock in the sky, the king has four political affairs, and the four political affairs are like four o'clock, and they are all kinds. The same is true of heaven and man. Celebration is spring, reward is summer, punishment is autumn, and punishment is winter."
In addition to beheading, most of the other cruel executions of death penalty in ancient times were executed immediately, such as car cracks, oil churn, etc., but the most cruel and inhumane is definitely Ling Chi, which is also Ling Chi. The commonly known "thousand knives and ten thousand cuts", even in ancient times, this punishment was not included in the formal punishment, and was only used for a very small number of criminals.
The term Lingchi was first seen in "Xunzi·Youzuo Pian": "A hundred ren's mountains, where one can carry a car to go to the mountain, what is it? Ling Chi died.", and its appearance as a penalty originated in the Liao Dynasty. "Liao History·Criminal Law Records" records: "The death penalty includes strangulation, beheading, and lingchi."
However, in the Liao Dynasty, there were not so many swords on the prisoners, but in the Ming Dynasty. However, there are great requirements for quantitative control. At least a thousand knives must be cut, which can be said to be a veritable "thousand knives and ten thousand cuts." In history, the record of the largest number of victims being cut was also in the Ming Dynasty. The man is the eunuch Liu Jin.
1510 (the fifth year of Zhengde) Liu Jin was ordered to be executed for the crime of "rebellion" by Ming Wuzong Zhu Huzhao. Zhu Huzhao demanded that the executioner must be cut at three thousand three hundred dollars. It is rumored that Liu Jin was cut for three days and three nights. When Tian was in prison, Liu Jin was sent back to the prison, and he was given a bowl of porridge to drink to replenish his strength and continue cutting the next day.
did not expect the executioner to break a record this time, he overfulfilled the task of 3,300 dollars assigned by Zhu Houzhao, and cut 3,600 dollars before Liu Jin died. Many people may be curious, how did Liu Jin's execution by so many knives ensure that he will continue to be angry?
It turns out that the general executioner will cut from the place where the impact on the fatal part is relatively small, such as the thigh and chest where there is more muscle tissue. When the victim is unable to bear the pain and falls into a coma, the executioner They will also yell loudly in the ear to ensure that the victim is tortured while staying awake.
This kind of cruel punishment continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty Wuxu Reform, the Qing Dynasty was affected by various contradictions, and the Minister of Law, Shen Jiaben, took the opportunity to play in the 31st year of Guangxu (1905). Ling Chi and other severe punishments were requested to be deleted. Since then, Ling Chi's torture has completely disappeared from the code. Nowadays, even if we only hear it, we shudder, and we can imagine how much suffering the victim will suffer.
