Unlike most execution methods, which aim to kill sooner rather than later, the intention of lingchi was to inflict a long, slow punishment to make the criminal suffer as much as possible. The practice was officially outlawed by the Qing dynasty government in 1905, but its gruesome legacy lingers to this day.
søndag 25. august 2024
From China’s Past: Lingchi, The Chinese Execution Method Reserved For The Most Vicious Criminals
In China from the 10th century until 1905, those convicted of crimes like high treason and mass murder could be sentenced to death by lingchi, a gruesome execution method in which victims were cut apart piece by piece until they died. Lingchi loosely translates to “slow slicing” or “death by a thousand cuts.” As the name implies, it was a drawn-out and brutal process wherein an executioner would deliver justice to perpetrators of particularly heinous crimes by administering a series of cuts to their skin.
Unlike most execution methods, which aim to kill sooner rather than later, the intention of lingchi was to inflict a long, slow punishment to make the criminal suffer as much as possible. The practice was officially outlawed by the Qing dynasty government in 1905, but its gruesome legacy lingers to this day.
Unlike most execution methods, which aim to kill sooner rather than later, the intention of lingchi was to inflict a long, slow punishment to make the criminal suffer as much as possible. The practice was officially outlawed by the Qing dynasty government in 1905, but its gruesome legacy lingers to this day.
