Criminals awaiting execution, 1899-1910
E. H. Wilson: Criminals awaiting execution, 1899-1910. Tied to a cross-shaped frame, two criminals wait to be moved to the scene of their death. The queue was passed through a hole in the top of the vertical post to keep the body in position, and a rope around the neck was twisted until strangulation occurred.
Source: The Face of China As Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912, p. 38
Criminals awaiting execution, 1899-1910
E. H. Wilson: Criminals awaiting execution, 1899-1910. Tied to a cross-shaped frame, two criminals wait to be moved to the scene of their death. The queue was passed through a hole in the top of the vertical post to keep the body in position, and a rope around the neck was twisted until strangulation occurred.
Source: The Face of China As Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912, p. 38