“Google guillotine” sounds a lot more metaphorical than “China death penalty”.
Something to do with being pelted with a lethal quantity of porcelain teacups.
No.
Dà Pì (大辟), the death sentence. Methods of execution were quartering, or cutting the body into four pieces (fēn wéi lù 分為戮); boiling alive (pēng 烹); tearing off an offender’s head and four limbs by attaching them to chariots (chēliè 車裂); beheading (xiāoshǒu 梟首); execution then abandonment of the offender’s body in the local public market (qìshì 棄市); strangulation (jiǎo 絞); and slow slicing (língchí 凌遲). Other methods of execution were also used. (1,000 crimes)Blockquote
It tends to be just one of BB’s contributors - If I see that name on a post, I usually just ignore it.
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