#231 - Ming 20: Liu Jin & the Eight Tigers
The History of China
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Death by Mutilation - A History of the Chinese
Leojin's death was to last for three whole days. On the night of the first he was taken down from his rack, apparently not only still alive, but with sufficient will and strength still eat the rice porridge offered him by the guards. Yet during the course of his torment, on the second day, he finally expired from shock and blood loss. In all it's written that he received three to 400 cuts before death, with a full sentence being enacted over the course of the second and third days. So the story goes, and with sufficient reason to be believed, as we will hear similarly in meadows account in just a minute.
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