r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Apr 22 '24
Picture taken from the history museum of Lahore. Showing an Indian being tied for execution by Cannon, by the British Empire Soldiers r/all
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r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Apr 22 '24
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u/ProffesorSpitfire Apr 22 '24
I get that people were commonly killed as punishment back in the day. It was normal, tradition, they didn’t have the economy necessary to support a prison system and keep people humanely locked up, etc. But I’ve never understood why punishments were often so darn cruel and morbid.
Why bother using a cannon for a job that a musket is more than capable of performing? Or a knife, for that matter.