One day in 1596, in Istanbul, Turkey, a prisoner was tied to a cannonball and then lit with a fuse.
With a loud noise, the shells were fired from the gun chamber with the human body, and the body was blown up without a trace.
This horrific image, which often appeared in South Asia in the nineteenth century, was called "gun execution" or "gun execution".
I can't imagine how painful the prisoner who was executed was, and what kind of suffering he experienced in his heart before he died!
When a prisoner is executed by a cannon, it is tied to the muzzle of the gun and then ignited and fired. Sometimes, the torturers also tied the living to a clearing and aimed and fired at close range with cannons. When the shell directly hits the human body, it produces a large amount of dense shrapnel, and the shock wave and explosion can directly tear people into pieces, and its bloody degree is suffocating.
At the end of the nineteenth century, a British colonist in India wrote in a book: "Prisoners are usually tied to gun barrels, with the upper part of their backs topped by the muzzles of the guns. When the cannon was fired, his head flew straight into the air forty to fifty feet, his arms flew high into the air, falling to a distance of about a hundred yards, his legs landed on the ground below the muzzle of the gun, and his body seemed to have been blown away by the wind, leaving no trace. ”
Among the "gun executions" carried out by various countries at that time, the British rulers carried out the most, mainly in their colony of India. In 1857 alone, the British carried out more than fifty "artillery executions" in India.
They chose this kind of torture, which they believed would separate the bodies of the victims and be more of a deterrent to Buddhist Indians.
In 1872, some members of the Indian Sikhs clashed with the police, and 66 members were tied to the muzzles of the guns, and the British executed them all.
However, the performance of the cannons at that time was not stable, and they were often dudded, which embarrassed the executioners.
Once, when the British executed 12 Indian prisoners, the first eleven were not bones. When it was the turn of the last prisoner, the soldiers fired three times, and none of the shells were fired.
Taken apart, it turned out to be a dud!
Just then the prisoner tied to the muzzle of the gun broke down completely, and he cried so hard that he snot a handful of tears, so much that the English people softened.
Luck should have been with the prisoner, and the Englishman released him with a wave of his hand.
This cruel death penalty was practiced in some places until the 20th century, such as Afghanistan.
In 1929, King Karakani of Afghanistan ordered the execution of 11 most heinous prisoners with cannons (Figure III).
But this kind of criminal law is too harsh after all, and it is unanimously opposed. After this execution, the execution of the gun was gradually obliterated in the long river of history.
