| Show HORRIBLE TORTURE alio punishment of ung cho inflicted on on chinese this last certainly amounts in theory to of the most borrillo borri blo kind it inapplicable only to criminals of the deepest dye such as rebels parricides roman who kill their husbands or murderers who kill tareo persona of ano family it is called variously tho lingering process tho slow and painful process slicing to death etc and the prescribed method seems to correspond with tho last named term the skin of tho forehead is supposed to bo sliced down tho checks slashed tho noso slit tho breast sliced off the stomach gashed etc before the coup do grace is given but when wo come to ask bow far tho legal sentence is put in actual execution wo una some of testimony mr giles affirms that a slight gash only is made across each collar bone and three gashes across the breast in the shape of the character meaning 1000 indicating the number of strokes the criminal ought to havo received and that decapitation follows without delay but in tho only case where I 1 havo hoard of a the process seems to have approximated much more nearly to tho legal prescription than to this assumption but methods of execution seem to be occasionally employed at least in the south which find no sanction in the code cases leavo canao under tho notice of foreign ars of death by crucifixion and of tho victim being suspended by the neck in a cage in such a way that lio can only touch the ground with tho tips of his toes and being left to die of starvation such proceedings arc however distinctly illegal survivals probably of an ago when chinese rulo and chinese civilization which havo radiated from tho were loss firmly established so that whatever tho law tho usual practice in a given re pion would seem to bo materially influenced fluen ced by local popular opinion ono who would generalize from in kiang soo would a smile in kwang tung just as tho impressions of ono who had lived in suan tung would seem foreign to a resident in Foh kien fortnightly review |
