Throw in the ashes
Throwing into the ashes is a method of execution in the Persian Empire .
The convict was locked in a room filled with ashes on the floor . As soon as he could no longer stand upright and sank to the ground, the ashes clogged the bronchi , whereupon the delinquent suffocated painfully.
Sources and References
literature
- Martin Zimmermann (Ed.): Extreme forms of violence in images and text in antiquity , Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3831608539
Individual evidence
- ↑ Putrefaction in the trough . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 2009, p. 142 ( online ).