Execution Tales Chapters Chapter 39 Part 3 Revision 2
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[The idea for this one came from a story found on the net several years ago - author unknown]

The third book was set in medieval China & finished with a gratifying description of a multiple female execution

Princess Wei

Princess Wei & her entourage of four young women were ready & waiting outside her palace when the soldiers came. The attempted rebellion had failed.
The Princess was dressed in her finest clothes. Her hair was brushed out so it hung down her back, black & lustrous & lightly scented with flowers. She had used just a little musk to enhance her natural scent, behind her ears, in the hollow of her lovely throat & at her wrists.

Her closest adviser, & lover, & her three serving maids were wearing their best cheosagn dresses, the skirts of which were slit up both sides to halfway up their thighs

The sight of the five young woman’s beauty made the captain of the troops pulse quicken. These were amongst the most lovely women he had ever seen.

The magistrate who was accompanying the soldiers stepped forward & started to read from the scroll he carried. “Princess Wei, I pronounce you & all the members of your household guilty of treason. The sentence for this prescribed by law is death”.

He turned to the captain & said “Captain, it is your duty to carry out the sentences in the manner we have already discussed”.

The soldier nodded & signalled to his second in command who had been well briefed in what he needed to do. He pointed at the three servant girls. “Take them first”, he instructed his sergeant.

The warrant officer along with six soldiers walked forward & two to each girl brought them forward & tied their hands behind their backs. At the same time another soldier stuck a low wooden cross in the ground.

Up until now the young women had seemed resigned to their fate, but now that it was upon them, the four members of the Princesses household started to cry, only the Princess herself appeared to remain calm.

The first girl tried to struggle as she was tied to the cross in a kneeling position, her arms fastened to the wooden bar. The soldier nominated as the executioner threw a noose of thin hemp cord over the girl’s shaking head, while the other end encircled the upper part of the stake. He stuck a short wooden stick between the cord & the stake behind the servant’s head & looked at the captain.

As soon as the captain had given the sign the soldier quickly twisted the stick round in both hands, the cord tightened round the girl’s neck, her eyes bulged from their sockets & her tongue protruded.

Her entire body shook & her breasts heaved as she tried to breathe. The soldier stopped turning the stick & waited. The silence in the palace yard was broken only by the choked gasps of the dying girl & the weeping of the other doomed women.

After about five minutes when all signs of life appeared to have gone from the strangled victim the sergeant walked over to her & felt her heart. He turned to the captain & confirmed that the girl was dead.

Having seen what happened to the first girl the other two servants were reduced to a condition of hysterical terror. They fought & screamed for mercy as one after the other they were tied to the wooden cross & strangled.

Once all three lay dead in the palace yard the soldiers took the bodies & hung them by the necks from the porch at the front of the palace. The slit skirts rustled in the wind exposing three pairs of slim legs as the dead maids dangled, swaying slightly in the breeze.

The second in command ordered “Bring forward the Dog Head Cutter”. When she realised how she is to be put to death the Princess’s lover wailed in terror.

The Emperor himself had ordered that she be beheaded by this fearsome machine as he held her responsible for turning the Princess against him.

The Dog Head Cutter was made up of an eight foot long, three feet wide wooden bascule with two foot supports at each corner. Fitted leather straps hung down to the ground on each side.

At the head of the wooden board sat the Dog Head Cutter itself. The serrated two feet long metal blade gleamed in the sun as it pointed up to the sky. Below it there was a head rest, with a small piece of wood designed to raise up the culprit’s neck to meet the teeth of the blade.

The young woman who was to lose her head on the Dog Head Cutter was dragged sobbing & pleading to it. As a further refinement the Emperor had instructed that the Princess’s lover be placed face up on the wooden table so that she could watch the blade as it descended.

The soldiers forced her on to the wooden platform & tied her into place. Her trembling head was secured to the head rest by a leather strap bound tight across her forehead, her wrists were held by leather cuffs fixed to the wooden board & a final leather strap tied her waist firmly to the bascule.

Up until now Princess Wei had manged to keep her composure but as she saw her lover placed under the blade of the Dog Head Cutter she started to weep

The woman in the deadly embrace of the terrible machine looked up at the blade & screamed again & again.

She struggled desperately against her bonds, the white silk underwear under her slit skirt clearly visible to all as her legs kicked furiously, her heels banged on the wood drummed out a sporadic tattoo.

The soldier turned executioner went to the blade of the Dog Head Cutter & put both hands on the handle at the end of it. On a nod from the captain he began to slowly pull the blade down.

As she saw it come towards her the young woman’s screams increased in their volume & intensity, her struggling & kicking became even more violent.
When the blade reached her shivering neck & she felt the cold serrated metal teeth on her skin the executioner stopped the descent of the blade.

As ordered he stood immobile for a minute torturing the condemned woman beneath him as she waited for the sharp teeth to start to cut into her lovely slender neck.

He then began to very slowly pull the blade down. As she felt the metal teeth start to do their dreadful work the doomed young woman screamed even louder, mouth agape, eyes wide open.

Blood began to ooze from her neck as the blade began to cut into her flesh. The flow of bright red liquid gradually increasing as the teeth of the blade ripped deeper.

As it cut through the trachea the terrible screams stopped suddenly however the young woman’s body continued to strain against its bonds, she was not yet dead.

Her merciful release only came when her spinal cord was severed & the Dog Head Cutter’s blade finally encountered the wooden bascule.

The executioner reached down & removed the leather strap from the forehead above the staring eyes. He then lifted the head by the long black hair which was tied into a pony tail, standing to one side to avoid the torrent of blood which spurted from the severed neck.

He took his grisly trophy to the place porch & hung it up by the pony tail next to the bodies of the serving girls.

Princess Wei having witnessed the four executions was now terrified. She sobbed helplessly. The captain gently took her arm & they walked slowly from the palace yard into the nearby tree lined garden. The magistrate & the rest of the soldiers stayed where they were.

In recognition of her royal rank, as was customary, she was to be executed by the most senior officer present with no witnesses present.

The captain looked at the Princess to judge her height & chose a tree branch & fashioned a double loop of silk around it.

He looked at her again, pausing to admire her delicate cream yellow face & perfect neck, trim figure, firm young breasts & lovely legs visible through the high slits in her skirt & moved the silk noose to a lower part of the branch.

He went to her & led her to the tree. He could feel her shaking with fright, tears rolled down her lovely cheeks. When they arrived at the tree he tied her hands behind her with another piece of silk & slipped the noose around her neck. He took out his officer’s baton & stepped behind the Princess inserting the baton between her neck & the noose.

He begins to slowly turn the baton tightening the now deadly piece of silk. Her eyes widen, she gasps & begins to thrash about & twist frantically, her legs kick violently & her back arches.

The silk bites deep into her throat & she can make not even the slightest sound. Her need for air is now desperate, her head whips from side to side, jaw working, tongue swelling, pushing between her teeth.

The captain twists the baton further, the tendons & blood vessels in the Princess’s neck stand out, her mouth is wide open & her tongue stretches for the air her lungs cry out for but can’t get.

Her movements become more convulsive & frantic, her body bucks wildly & her legs kick aimlessly, threshing through the long slits in the sides of her skirt. And then her entire body tenses, her body arches even further back, her neck bends backwards, her eyes roll upwards, lids fluttering, mouth wide open as if she is screaming & then she goes limp.

The captain kept the baton in place for a further minute just to make sure that the Princess was dead. He then removed it & came round to stand in front of the body of the strangled young woman. He checked her heart & felt no beat.

She was no longer beautiful. Her face had darkened, bulging eyes stared out at nothing, tongue lolling from the gaping mouth.

He left her there & returned to the palace yard to tell the magistrate he could now go into the garden to verify that the execution had been carried out & that the body could be retrieved.

Five minutes later Princess Wei hung from the palace porch roof alongside her three serving girls & her lover’s head

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