dismemberment
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dismemberment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.