09-09-2006, 01:42 PM
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torture redux
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Originally posted by Penske_Account
From the WSJ's book review page last week, reviewing Geoffrey Robertson's new book "The Tyrannicide Brief":
As Charles II looked on in approval, [John] Cooke [the prosecutor of King Charles I of England] was hanged slowly until he passed out and was then revived to watch as his genitals were sliced off (later to be fed to stray dogs). A length of his bowel was yanked from his body, pulled before his face and set alight as he bled to death in unspeakable agony.
While I don't think that this is torture per se, I think it probably falls close to the line....maybe they should have refrained from lighting the length of bowel on fire......
seems a tad bit rougher than waterboarding though, no?
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