This punishment, known to foreigners as 'lingering death' is not inflicted so much as a torture, but to destroy the future as well as the present life of the offender — he is unworthy to exist longer either as a man or a recognizable spirit, and, as... Notes and Commentaries on Chinese Criminal Law, and Cognate Topics: With ... - Page 55 by Ernest Alabaster - 1899 - 677 pages Full view -
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