A Chinese crucifixion

Translation

Violent burglary, theft of property and arson.


Appearance in a Taiwanese visit to hell

For a description of people being "tied securely to stakes in the form of crosses" from a Taiwanese spiritual medium who had engaged in a series of hell tours between 1976 and 1979, see Voyages to hell, Chapter 26.



A second example of a crucifixion from another hell scroll (E2).

Garroting
 A similar depiction of a bound criminal, this time being garroted, from the Illustrated London News, 4 April 1857.