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  2. Lingchi - Wikipedia

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    This anti-lingchi trend coincided with a more general attitude opposed to "cruel and unusual" punishments (such as the exposure of the head) that the Tang dynasty had not included in the canonic table of the Five Punishments, which defined the legal ways of punishing crime. Hence the abolitionist trend is deeply ingrained in the Chinese legal ...

  3. Impalement - Wikipedia

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    A similar punishment by impalement for a proven male adulterer is mentioned in a 13th-century ordinance for Moravian mining city Jihlava (then and German Iglau), [60] whereas in a 1340 Vienna statute, the husband of a woman caught in flagrante in adultery could, if he wished to, demand that his wife and her lover be impaled, or alternatively ...

  4. Five Punishments - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Following the Sui and Tang dynasties (581–907 AD), these were changed to penal servitude, banishment, death, or corporal punishment in the form of whipping with bamboo strips or flogging with a stick. Although the Five Punishments were an important part of Dynastic China's penal system, they were not the only methods of punishment used.

  5. Breast torture - Wikipedia

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    A bondage rigger creating a shinju rope breast harness that can be used for breast bondage. Breast torture (also called breast play, nipple torture or tit torture) [1] is a BDSM activity [2] in which sexual stimulation is provided through the intentional application of physical pain or constriction to the breasts, areolae or nipples of a submissive.

  6. Cruel and unusual punishment - Wikipedia

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    Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to the sanction. The precise definition varies by jurisdiction, but typically includes punishments that are arbitrary, unnecessary, or overly severe compared ...

  7. Torture of slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Said the wife of an ex-negro trader in Virginia to a freedmen who was skinning a live catfish, 'How can you be so cruel!'—'Why,' said the intelligent contraband, 'Dis is de way dey used to do me, and I'se gwine to get even wid somebody.'" (Waynesboro Record, Waynesboro, Penn., March 9, 1866)

  8. Internet Reacts To Arrest Of Hitwoman “The Doll”: “Where Is A ...

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    The Doll’s defiant gaze seen in the photos of her arrest led locals to compare her to Rosario Tijeras, the titular character of a telenovela centered around a female assassin in Medellín.

  9. List of methods of torture - Wikipedia

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    The limbs collected from this and other punishments of the time were "emptied by the hundreds". Sometimes, this method was limited to dislocating a few bones, but the torturer often went too far and rendered the legs or arms (sometimes both) useless. In the late Middle Ages, some new variants of this instrument appeared.