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Show Cruel Punishments in Persia. Punishment by crucifixion still survives sur-vives in Persia, but the victim is nailed to a wall instead of to a cross. At the gates of towns may be seen pillars of brick with domed tops about the height of a man, in which victims are walled up. They may be heard sailing sail-ing for water, though generally the pillars pil-lars are supposed to have their hollows hol-lows filled up with earth, so that the victims cannot move and die quiokly. Another way of punishment is to bury a man up to his neck in wet slime, which, when it dries, contracts and gradually crushes him. This is the most terrible of all deaths. |