What is the Tanxiang punishment?

Tanxiang punishment is not a stick to beat people, is to take a stick, the whole root did not enter, penetrate the stomach and intestines, so that people die a bitter death, the official history has not seen the use of this punishment records, for this punishment, the 19th century, "Encyclopedia" under the following: "Execution method lies in the stakes inserted into the body of the prisoner, the most common is to insert the anus, and let them die. "

I. Methods of Sandalwood Execution

The Sandalwood Execution is based on the diameter of the stake, sometimes the anus is opened beforehand with a spreader or cut with a knife, and then the executioner inserts the stake and nails it with a hammer. In some areas, the stake inserted into the fifty or sixty centimeters, the executioner will put the stake up, inserted into the first dug pit, let the stake with the prisoner's weight, little by little deeper, until it is from the armpit, chest, back or anus through the abdomen, in general, was so "repaired" prisoners often have to endure more than three days of torture.

Two, on the sandalwood penalty

This penalty in order to punish the prisoners, a sandalwood cut into the size of the shape of a sword, longer and wider than the sword. After making, into the boiling hot sesame oil inside the cooking, cooking also add dough, raw beef, so that the sandalwood stained with grain and meat flavor. After five days of cooking, the sandalwood will become a very hard and pliable material on the surface, but the surface will be very smooth, because the fragrant oil is seeped into the wooden stick, then this cruel instrument of torture is made. The first thing to do is to let the victim lie down on the table, and then the torturer, holding the sandalwood in one hand and a large wooden hammer in the other, will drive the sandalwood into the anus of the prisoner, through the whole body, and out of the mouth, or into the mouth and out through the anus. And the whole process, due to the sandalwood by a very good flexibility and surface grease smoothness, coupled with the skills of the torturer, well avoided the prisoner's vital tissues and organs, tortured prisoners will not be immediately killed, life is not so alive, and if the prisoner by the near-death state, the torturer will also give the prisoner to the infusion of life-supporting soup, and finally the prisoner watched his whole body rot maggots, the pain of the death of the most extreme.

People who were executed sandalwood torture, to be tortured, lasted three to five days and died, it is inhumane.