Show punishments many novel methods ferocious and indiscriminate the zil i sultanas isfahan arid the late shed had been distinguished for the severity of their the most common of the various ish men ts in persia is that of the sticks the offender is th back upon his bare feet are passed through leathern loops attached to a six foot beam of wood which is twisted until the loops arc painfully tight about his ankles andnis held in the strong grashof grasp of twomey soi eliat wrea things nor efforts can ho biseo remove his feet the sticks are generally inch green rods four or five feet in length and bif sentenced no fifty sticks twenty five are laid an each side of him upon the ground two exe cautioners cution ers then break stick after stick by beating them upon the solea of his feet with horrible result of which a months is likely to be the painful consequence both these governors are said to have adopted the same pun ashment for the suppression of highway robbery they built the captured robbers into pillars of masonry the koran recommends the cutting off of a hand the punishment for theft and thre are men in persia who carry about evidence that this cruel punishment ia sometimes practiced practised A persian governor is alleged to have been successful in enforcing taxation by a practice of filling the wide trousers of subjects a with freezing snow crimes of rubbery and violence are more frequent in the south than ip the north of persia 8 ascribe this to the large nomad population which according toi the season tho shores of the gulf toward or fromi Is everywhere in persia it is the habit of wayfarers wayfare rs to gather together for mutual protection peasants passing from town to town with perhaps a bag of silver in thear pockets feel happy if they can join some caravan which includes armed men and especially eafe if they are in the caravan of a european the most common formoe execution is to cut the throats of criminals and to leave their bodies lying in the public square the bowstring h occasionally used by skilful fer ashes two of whom twist the rope round the neck of the criminal and kill him by strangulation with awful rapidity if a european la in juredine ju redone difficulty attending complaint is that the persian governs easily aroused to indis wholesale vengeance S k upon its miserable subjects 4 4 here will certainly be isome victims for the kni feor the string or thelia lug death at the hands of tho exe cautioners cution ers tho main evidence may be that the prisoners were taken hear in persia is stiv feeblest and buoi faintest security for of justice loridon |