As soon as we hear the word punishment, it makes people feel chilling, fortunately, we live in a highly developed society today, even those who have been sentenced to death also enjoy human rights, so we basically do not see all kinds of cruel punishments today, and the same way of executing the death penalty has now been humanitarian.
But in ancient feudal societies, unlike those who warned those who dared to challenge their authority in order to maintain their rule, the ruling class usually took extreme measures, on the one hand, to make the person suffer, and on the other hand, to make more people fearful, these cruel physical punishments, as the crime (or provocation of the dignity of those in power) increased, the punishment will become more and more cruel, both in China and the West.
However, among all the crimes, the rebellion in the Eastern civilization and the treason in the West are particularly serious among many crimes, and even have reached the point of not only provoking the dignity of those in power, but even wanting to replace them, this crime is the most intolerable to the general ruler, in the watermelon video creator [Qing Shi Said] 's work [Torture of the Buddha Jumping the Wall': The SSR-level Punishment of medieval traitors], it tells the history of the Western history of the punishment of traitors, which makes people shudder.
An adventurer from a prominent family
On the evening of November 4, 1605, the Kingdom of England, with prior information, arrested a man named Guy Fox, a member of a well-known Catholic conspiracy who had previously teamed up with a group of people who had planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I and his family at the opening ceremony of the British Parliament, but because of the lack of secrecy, Fox himself was arrested the night before the incident, resulting in the aborted plan.
Speaking of Fox, in fact, he should be regarded as an adventurer, he was originally born in Yorkshire a well-known family, originally a step-by-step life, but Fox himself is not satisfied with the display, as a Catholic fanatic, Fox later left Protestant England and went to Spain to join the army, which is considered to have a certain military experience. But Fox himself was not a member of the conspiracy at the time.
Planned abortion
The so-called gunpowder conspiracy, in fact, the plan formulated by this conspiracy organization, when the British established the parliamentary system, the living space of Catholics was greatly suppressed, King James I of England was an arrogant maniac, although he looked down on the parliament during his reign and vigorously advocated the divine right of kings, but after becoming king, he did not give the Catholics the same rights, which led to the establishment of a conspiracy organization by this group of Catholics and the determination to assassinate the king.
Considering the need for help from a man who knew the military, the group approached Fox, and before he knew the full plan, the adventurous Fox immediately agreed and guarded 40 barrels of explosives in the cellar of the Capitol. The original plan was carried out very smoothly, but there was a mistake in the process, first of all, the gunpowder that was originally used as an excuse for winter heating was discovered, and after the defendant was secreted, the king became suspicious, so he ordered a search and found Fox crouching at the scene.
Severe torture
Although the law at the time prohibited the torture of prisoners, in order to learn from Fox the whereabouts of his accomplices, the king signed an order authorizing the torture. After the torture, Fox confessed, and soon under Tu Suoji, the accomplices were arrested one by one, except for those who were killed at the scene of the arrest, most of them were thrown into prison and severely tortured, and then confessed one by one, but for these people who attempted to murder the king, the execution of their punishments caused many problems.
Of course, killing a person is easy, how to make a person's death less pleasant, chief prosecutor Kirk proposed that traitors be punished with extremely severe punishment, he suggested that "they should be strangled, then hacked, and cut off their private parts, because these people are not worthy of offspring, and should also take out the internal organs and burn them, and then look down at the head and split the body."
But the final execution process also produced a lot of accidents, first of all, Fox was hanged, I don't know if it was because the torture device was unreasonable, Fox was hanged four times before he died due to neck fracture, and his body later roughly went through a process, and finally split the body, the body was divided into four parts and sent to the four corners of the city, and was inserted with a fork to hang high.
It can be seen that the execution of traitors in the medieval period was quite severe. The watermelon video creator [Qingshi Said] also mentioned the story of Guy Fox in "Torture of the Buddha Jumping the Wall": SSR Punishment for Medieval Treason, and to this day, the British spontaneously celebrate Guy Fox Night on November 5 every year and burn the straw man in old clothes symbolizing Guy Fox. Interested students can search for "Torture Buddha Jumping the Wall" on the watermelon video to feel the terrifying punishment of the Middle Ages.