Show parricides punishment before the french brought some degree of civilization into the west at rican kingdom of dahoma dahomy strange and horrible methods of capital pun ashment were there employed A ter slow death was meted out to the parricide the top of a supple tree was pulled near the ground and fastened by a contrivance of an arch and a rope the prisoners head was bound into the upper branches his hands were tied behind him the rope which held the tree down was ci and he was shot up into the air to hang by his head until death released him from agony |