![]() ![]() Tiradentes Quartered, Pedro Américo (1893) Quartering procedure in the Holy Roman Empire If the order was to cut him to pieces, the elephant would do so with his irons, and then throw the pieces among the assembled multitude: but if the order was to leave him, he would be left lying before the Emperor, until the skin should be taken off, and stuffed with hay, and the flesh given to the dogs. On such occasions the elephant-driver rode upon them: and, when a man was thrown to them, they would wrap the trunk about him and toss him up, then take him with the teeth and throw him between their fore feet upon the breast, and do just as the driver should bid them, and according to the orders of the Emperor. Their hoofs were cased with sharp iron instruments, and the extremities of these were like knives. They were ordered, accordingly, to be thrown to the elephants, which had been taught to cut their victims to pieces. Upon a certain day, when I myself was present, some men were brought out who had been accused of having attempted the life of the Vizier. The Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta, visiting Delhi in the 1330s, has left the following eyewitness account of this particular type of execution by elephants: The techniques by which the convicted person was executed varied widely but did, on occasion, include the elephant dismembering the victim by means of sharp blades attached to its feet. Particularly in South-Eastern Asia, execution by trained elephants was a form of capital punishment practiced for several centuries. History Cutting apart Slicing to pieces by elephant ![]() The latter would include castration (removal of the testes), evisceration (removal of the internal organs), and flaying (removal of the skin)." According to these parameters, removing a whole hand would constitute dismemberment, while removing or damaging a finger would be mutilation decapitation of a full head would be dismemberment, while removing or damaging a part of the face would be mutilation and removing a whole torso would be dismemberment, while removing or damaging a breast or the organs contained within the torso would be mutilation. Mutilation, by contrast, involves "the removal or irreparable disfigurement, by any means, of some smaller portion of one of those larger sections of a living or dead person. They suggested that dismemberment involves "the entire removal, by any means, of a large section of the body of a living or dead person, specifically, the head (also termed decapitation), arms, hands, torso, pelvic area, legs, or feet". Stone, Gary Brucato and Ann Burgess proposed formal criteria by which "dismemberment" might be systematically distinguished from the act of " mutilation", as these terms are commonly used interchangeably. In criminology, a distinction is made between offensive dismemberment, in which dismemberment is the primary objective of the dismemberer, and defensive dismemberment, in which the motivation is to destroy evidence. As opposed to surgical amputation of the limbs, dismemberment is often fatal. 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. Its discovery led to the excavation of the Templo Mayor.ĭismemberment is the act of cutting, ripping, tearing, pulling, wrenching or otherwise disconnecting the limbs from a living or dead being. Aztec stone disk depicting a dismembered Coyolxauhqui which was found during construction in 1978 in Mexico City. ![]()
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