{"id":651,"date":"2009-12-11T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-11-09T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T20:43:35","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-11-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For December 11, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Slow Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ling Chi \u2013 execution by slow cutting \u2013 was practiced in China until it was outlawed in 1905. In the execution, the criminal is slowly cut in the arms, legs, and chest, until finally they are beheaded or stabbed in the heart. Many western accounts of the execution method are largely exaggerated, with some claiming that the execution could take days to perform.<\/p>\n<p>One modern eyewitness report from Journalist and Politician Henry Norman, describes an execution thus:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The criminal is fastened to a rough cross, and the executioner, armed with a sharp knife, begins by grasping handfuls from the fleshy parts of the body, such as the thighs and the breasts, and slicing them off. After this he removes the joints and the excrescences of the body one by one-the nose and ears, fingers and toes. Then the limbs are cut off piecemeal at the wrists and the ankles, the elbows and knees, the shoulders and hips. Finally, the victim is stabbed to the heart and his head cut off.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/listverse.com\/2007\/09\/12\/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution\/\">ListVerse.Com<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Jason T.<\/p>\n<p>I can think of few deaths that would be more horrible than this. And here&#8217;s a particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/morbid\/files\/cuts.jpg\">gruesome image<\/a> of the result of one such execution. Gimme the electric chair anyday!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Slow Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Ling Chi \u2013 execution by slow cutting \u2013 was practiced in China until it was outlawed in 1905. In the execution, the criminal is slowly cut in the arms, legs, and chest, until finally they are beheaded or stabbed in the heart. Many western accounts of the execution method [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}