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" 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
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Capital Punishment: Global Issues and Prospects

Peter Hodgkinson, Andrew Rutherford - Capital punishment - 1996 - 292 pages
...offender is tied to a cross, and, by a series of painful but not in themselves mortal cuts, his head is sliced beyond recognition. The head of the offender...he is unworthy to exist longer either as a man or a recognisable spirit, and, as spirits to appear must assume their previous corporeal forms, he can only...
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