Lingchi (), also called the “sluggish slicing” or “dying by a thousand cuts”, is a historic Chinese language technique of capital punishment through which the condemned is slowly and methodically lower to dying over an prolonged interval.
This grotesque type of execution was sometimes reserved for essentially the most heinous crimes, and was typically used as a method to terrorize and deter potential criminals. Lingchi was first used in the course of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and was ultimately abolished in 1905.
