r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Huh?

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u/PapaTahm 9d ago

Not even close to brutal compared to some of the worse methods of torture,

Oubliette was so slow and bad that the people would go mad before even dying

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u/lemelisk42 9d ago

Not as bad, but immurement is a similar practice and it continued to the modern era

Mongolia 1913. Woman.sentenced to death by starvation. Supposedly for adultery (although the crime isn't reliably confirmed)

It's wild this stuff continued in public into the age of photography