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A GHASTLY RECORD
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Capital punishment in China is inflicted either by strangulation
or by decapitation with the sword. With the blade he is exhibiting
this executioner is said to have decapitated something like twenty
thousand criminals
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ALMOST INSUPPORTABLE PORTABLE STOCKS
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The cangue is a heavy rectangular wooden framework fastened round the
neck of a convicted criminal, and so large that the wearer can neither
lie down nor lean back
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