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tags: lingchi, execution, death, tourture, china, slow death, slow, prisoner, flesh, cut, body, opium, mercy, humiliation, punishment, death penalty, death punishment, confucianism
Lingchi, translated variously as death by a thousand cuts, is the slow process, the lingering death, or slow slicing, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly AD 900 until it was banned in 1905. In this form of execution, a knife
tags: lingchi, execution, death, tourture, china, slow death, slow, prisoner, flesh, cut, body, opium, mercy, humiliation, punishment, death penalty, death punishment, confucianism