Capital punishment at its squishiest.
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Friday, November 05, 2010
Execution by Elephant
This wood engraving was first published in Le Tour de Monde in 1868.
Capital punishment at its squishiest.
Capital punishment at its squishiest.
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2 comments:
Pretty wild photo.
That's just nasty. I used to have one in my history text that had a bunch of people buried up to their necks in a field with a herd of elephants being goaded to run among them.
I guess waterboarding, as awful as it is, is not unique in the annals of awfulness of man versus man.
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