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Originally posted by Aragorn1:
Even if i did agree, the method is savage, not only did they whip him i suspect the hanging was not done with a fatal knot which breaks th neck was the English practice but by suffocation. Even the guilotine, firing squad etc offered a quick death as a punishment not an agnizing one as punishment. (God, i'm sounding like a liberal)
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Oh, we of European descent have our own savagery to deal with. Quartering, drawing, impalement. And, let's not think our religion avoids it either -- iron maidens, thumb screws, racks, hot pokers, all part of the "trial by ordeal" arsenal of slow and painful death that was part of the Holy Roman Inquisition for hundreds of years. I mean, it takes a creative sort of barbarism to dream up the "quartered and drawn" combination, not to mention the choreographical talent needed to coordinate 4 horses and one disentrailer.