#231 - Ming 20: Liu Jin & the Eight Tigers
The History of China
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The Decapitation of 33 Convicts
The process itself was only vaguely described and with little and much variance. This likely means that there was no standard methodology to such a punishment, and it depended on quite a few different factors. The executioner cut off 33 heads in somewhat less than three minutes, all but the first completely severed. As soon as the 33 were decapitated, the same executioner proceeded with a single edged dagger or knife to cut of the man on the ross whose sole clothing consisted of his wide trousers rolled down to his hips and up to his buttocks. We could not seal the horrible operation. From the first stroke of the knife till the moment the body was cut down from the cross and decapitated, about
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