The Horror if The Wooden Box Execution Method


In 1912–1913, millionaire banker Albert Kahn commissioned French photographer Stephane Passet and others to photograph 50 countries using a new color film. They returned 72,000 photos. In China and Mongolia, Passet photographed these imprisoned people. They were locked into torture devices for the rest of their lives.

To assist the condemned would have made the helper subject to the death penalty, as well.

The practice is called immurement, and was invented by the Romans as a way to punish women for sexual crimes such as adultery. Immurement was invented specifically to punish vestal virgins, since it was illegal to spill their blood, but leaving them to starve was perfectly AOK with the gods.

The story of this particular woman is unknown, but this was the story an editor at National Geographic provided when they published it.

The collection is available as Albert Kahn Archive of the Planet 

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