Violent Ends

Early modern methods of execution were carefully calculated to inflict shame upon the condemned. 

The Large Miseries of War: Execution on the Wheel, by Jacques  Callot, 1633.
The Large Miseries of War: Execution on the Wheel, by Jacques Callot, 1633. BTEU/RKMLGE/Alamy

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