Lingchi “Death by a Thousand Cuts”: 18 Centuries of Gruesome Chinese Torture
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Lingchi “Death by a Thousand Cuts”: 18 Centuries of Gruesome Chinese Torture

Lingchi , usually translated as ‘death by a thousand cuts’, ‘death by division’, ‘slow slicing’, ‘lingering death’, ‘slow process’, , was a slow and extremely painful execution method in which a knife was used to make small shallow cuts all over the body of the victim until death.