Posted on 05/10/2023 5:58:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...A hideous form of execution, which has not been practiced for twenty years, was revived the other day to strike terror into the hearts of the people. The murder of the Shah was followed by a succession of robberies on the road between Bushire and Isfahan, the nomad tribes going out in large parties and looting villages and caravans, and an Englishman was even stripped naked and beaten with sticks. One hundred thousand pounds was estimated as the value of property that changed hands during one week. Every day individuals came naked into Shiraz, and the roads were strewn with merchandise that the robbers found unsuitable to carry off.
At this juncture H.R.H. Rukn-ed-Dowleh, Governor of Shiraz, marched out of prison five men, who, common report said, had been there for the last five months, and had had nothing whatever to do with the matter, but had merely been brought from the south, because they refused to pay the excessive taxes imposed on them.....
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Yikes. Even Robespierre didn’t use Plaster of Paris.
Now I know what to do with child molesters.
Yeah, that would suck.
I wonder if ISIS uses this website for ideas?
They’re too impatient and hands on.
In the words of the immortal bard Sir Trey Anastasio:
“Death Don’t Hurt Very Long”.
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