dismemberment
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22 sectionsContents
- History
- Cutting apart
- Slicing to pieces by elephant
- Quartering procedure in the Holy Roman Empire
- Fabled Turkish execution method
- Shekkeh in Persia
- Mughal Empire/Mughal–Sikh Wars and Mughal–Jat Wars
- Korea
- China
- Current use
- Tearing apart
- By four horses
- By five horses
- By oxen
- Fate of Queen Brunhilda
- Torn apart by four ships
- Torn apart by two trees
- Torn apart by stones
- A Christian martyr withstands being torn apart
- Criminological aspects
- See also
- References
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Dismemberment is the act of completely disconnecting and removing the limbs, skin, or organs from a living or dead being. It has been practiced upon human beings as a form of capital punishment, especially in connection with regicide, but can occur as a result of a traumatic accident, or in connection with murder, suicide, or cannibalism. As opposed to surgical amputation of limbs, dismemberment is often fatal. In criminology, a distinction is made between offensive dismemberment, in which dismemberment is the primary objective of the dismemberer, and defensive dismemberment, in which the motivation is to destroy evidence.