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| The wheel was a form of torture popular in Germany and France as capital punishment for men. The wheel would resemble a large spool of thread, with out the thread of coarse. All of the accused mans clothes were removed except for pair of single brief linen pants. He was then tied and stretched around the wheel. The wheel would be rolled, slowly crushing his frame. It was once gruesomely stated that a �good� executioner could crush a persons bones using this method without breaking their skin. Once the victim was on the verge of death the executioner would roll the wheel for the spectators viewing pleasure watching the victim die. If the death was unusually slow and bored the crowd, the victim would receive mass blows to his chest until he died. Another version of the wheel would have the accused placed onto the execution dock and restrained. A number of pieces of steel would then be placed under all of the crucial joints in the arms and legs. A heavy wagon wheel would then be dropped on each joint, sometimes even on the connecting bone, shattering the entire structure. The broken limbs would then be gruesomely woven between the spokes of the wheel and hung in the air for the birds to complete the execution. |
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