Talk:Sawing

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Some common questions to be answered: - When was 'Sawing' practiced? - Who practiced it? - Recent events...?

Is there any reference at all to homosexuals suffering this punishment? This sounds to me like an urban legend...

I agree. Homosexuals have rarely been punished in such ways. It seems to me to be a myth. undcumented and also a VERY unpractical way to kill someone. Most metal saws would take a long time to saw someone up too. And the victim would not survive as long as claimed in the article.

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I've gotta say... Youch! (or "Yowch!") Is there a scale to measure pain? How much pain can one take before turning unconscious? --Shultz 23:09, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

There is an exhibit on the use of sawing as a method of execution in the medieval torture museum in market square, Tallinn, Estonia, alongside an actual instrument which was wielded by two men, each holding an end of the saw. The exhibit also makes mention of keeping the person as conscious as long as possible by turning them upside down, and there is what looks like an illustration of the practice from an old text. Horrific.

I've never heard of it before, it's hideous! Wow... cyclosarin 16:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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I created the sections History, Geography and Pop Culture, marking each as a stub. Maybe this is a tad redundant, and geo can be merged into history. In any case, I really don't know much about the subject at hand, but hope that by formatting the article more like a standard Wikipedia template, this will encourage others with knowledge to fill in the blanks. DigitalEnthusiast 21:06, 12 December 2006 (UTC)