During the Mughal era, "it was a common mode of execution in those days to have the offender trampled underfoot by an elephant".
And in the most ghastly scene in the book, when one of Ashes' henchmen (known as the Pounder) kills the wife of a British businessman, the mode of execution -- it is carried out with a "meter-long pestle" -- is the stuff of pulp horror stories.
But in France the more gruesome forms of capital punishment were being phased out, and the country soon instituted a single, putatively egalitarian mode of execution: the guillotine.
I cannot believe that the technology does not exist to place someone under anesthesia, after which the mode of execution becomes irrelevant (whether respiratory depression or a bullet to the brain).
The proposed mode of execution varies, but politicians never stop pronouncing death sentences on quangos.
The unusual mode of execution was, apparently, decreed by Henry, after some thought.
In the United States and elsewhere, hanging was also usually the mode of execution used in lynchings.
The question of whether doctors should participate in executions is more difficult now that lethal injections are the dominant mode of execution in the United States.
Hanging became the standard mode of execution throughout the British Empire and wherever else the Anglo-American common law was adopted.
The mode of execution depends on the cell type and the cell death-inducing trigger.
This solution permits stream processing even if the workflow engine does not directly support this mode of execution and even if the tools within the workflow do not support pipelining.
