Death
The emperor ordered Liu executed by death by a thousand cuts over a period of three days, a process that resulted in Liu being cut 3,357 times. According to witnesses, onlookers in Beijing bought his flesh for one qian (the smallest available currency at the time) and consumed it accompanied with rice wine. Liu died on the second day of his punishment after three to four hundred cuts.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Tear out the close vermiculate crease
Where death crawled angrily at bay.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us?”
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