CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CHINA.
- There are .three grades, of capital punishment — lst, strangulation j. ( 2d, decapitation,, which .isimuch, fe^r.ecj, from the; idea that a person goes into" tte next world in -the; saraei state in,,whicli,he left this one ■;>• andn3dilfor. heinous primes, ■such^as treason^parricide^sacrjlgge, &c, •the' punishment;; which jthe-j Europeans somewhatnhcorreetly into • ten sthoiisandv piqce&y j/rhig^pqns ists in the prisoner.-; having :h,is ; facet aiid other •parts of the; body i-sp slashed before the final rblow :iB:., struck,T U tjhaji.^e 5 enters ' Hades vnot headless j, but /witkhis skele-. 'ton/parCiallyldivested .9* rflesh* fixion' f ,and;f sawing , asunder r ar ( e» two of i; the : . other -Yhornble.l modes. ,oy^ which criminals |are .executed, ;andj,.>Btrange to sayi ! the former means, long, lingering. , tortureii;is,iof;ten^preferred to » decapitation 1 , sinipiy^because f the crucified; man- saves, ;hisrhea& :i £uyw^^ he is 'anxious ;to show with h js# ncesWsin ihe ■■ nextiworlddi'vln ( all .tbe,3e punishments $ ricbman can;. usually | .ojit^ipi^ substi- * tute~; Sthe great ? difficulty not in bribing sa man ; , take /thecal crimirtaUsplacefj butj.ijßimply^o'.^riJj^ all the ■bfficialsiwihosenbuainess ,itj4i' j'see the sentence carried i,ntd> exqc^tjjonj or injdee.i> pri'marily]-^3;pne,^hp ; ]^as to pronounce ilia Chinese/ prisons, We^terribly sevareiin > 'their c^isoipline,»jsdJthat to 4void ithe'seyTyo^p, jojr, hejjs^as they are 'prdperly/ ealled^^o" fjjon'gi terms, is frequentlyypreferred.^*-' Races of Mankind.' y . . T, :m .. . ,, ti ', "., [ .iii
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Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 99, 2 June 1876, Page 6
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