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To avoid movement, the victim's wrists were tied to the chair or, in one version, two bars pushed the arms against arm-rests for the spikes to penetrate the flesh even further. In some versions, there were holes under the chair's bottom where the torturer placed coal to cause severe burns while the victim still remained conscious.
[32] [33] The arbitrary, cruel, and short-lived Liu Ziye was apt to kill innocent officials by lingchi. [34] Gao Yang killed only six people by this method, [ 35 ] and An Lushan killed only one man. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Lingchi was known in the Five Dynasties period (907–960 CE); but, in one of the earliest such acts, Shi Jingtang abolished it. [ 38 ]
A contact shot produces a distinctive wound, with extensive tissue damage from the burning propellant. Unlike a shot from point-blank range, the powder burns will cover a very small area right around the entry wound; often there will be a distinct pattern, called tattooing.
Shooting to wound refers to attempts to use a firearm to harm someone without killing them. It is controversial since the unpredictable nature of firearm wounds could result in the wound failing to incapacitate the target; it may accidentally kill or miss the target, [ 1 ] the latter presents a risk of unintended casualties.
Dismemberment is the act of completely disconnecting and/or removing the limbs 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 .
The new data backs up previous data that showed gun deaths among children increased 87.1% from 2011-2021.
Penetrating trauma is an open wound injury that occurs when an object pierces the skin and enters a tissue of the body, creating a deep but relatively narrow entry wound.In contrast, a blunt or non-penetrating trauma may have some deep damage, but the overlying skin is not necessarily broken and the wound is still closed to the outside environment.
A letter bomb is an explosive device sent via the postal service, designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened. A pipe bomb is an IED that uses a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material. A barrel bomb is an unguided IED made to be dropped from helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.