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Execution by elephant, or Gunga Rao, was a method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives during public executions. The animals were trained to kill victims immediately or to torture them slowly over a prolonged period.
For thousands of years, crushing by elephant was a common method of execution for those condemned to death, mainly throughout south and southeast Asia, and particularly in India. Elephants employed in this manner were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions. The use of elephants to execute captives often attracted the ...
"Elephants are widely reported to have been used to carry out executions in Southeast Asia, and were used in Burma and Malaysia from the earliest historical times" is sourced to a source from the time of the British Raj. In addition, the map doesn't seem to entirely match what is described in the article. This one needs a complete overhaul.
In medieval Europe the slow crushing of body parts in screw-operated ‘bone vises’ of iron was a common method of torture [citation needed], and a tremendous variety of cruel instruments was used to savagely crush the head, knee, hand and, most commonly, either the thumb or the naked foot. Such instruments were finely threaded and variously ...
The Cremona elephant as depicted in the Chronica maiora, Part II, Parker Library, MS 16, fol. 151v Sketch of Hanno and mahout, after Raphael, c. 1514. The history of elephants in Europe dates back to the time of the Roman Empire, but previously, during the Ice Age, relatives of elephants were spread across the globe, including Europe.
Elephant executions occurred most frequently in the United States during the carnival-circus era of roughly 1850 to 1950; at least 36 elephants were executed between the 1880s and the 1920s. [1] [2] During this era, elephant behavior was often explained anthropomorphically, and thus granted a moral dimension wherein their actions were "good" or ...
Named after the terrorist Osama bin Laden, [3] [4] at the time of the attacks, the elephant was thought to be between 45 and 50 years old. [5] He measured between 2.7 and 3.0 metres (9 and 10 ft) tall. [5] [6] He was given the status of a "rogue" elephant in the summer of 2006 after his death toll reached double-digit figures. [3]
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