Sometimes, a quick beheading was the easy way out.

Sometimes, a quick beheading was the easy way out. Here, a man is pictured standing in a box, as a crowd watches his progress.

This is not a posed shot.

The convicted man has been here for a few days. He is standing on a pile of thin stones (or wooden planks).

Every day, one piece is pulled out, until you can no longer stand, and either your neck snaps under the weight of your body pulling on it, or else you slowly strangle to death.

The worst part is when you think you can put off death by standing on your tip-toes, and start to panic in that position……

.and then you discover that you cannot stay your toes for as long as you thought you could.

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Those last hours are the worst, until the moment comes when you let your body go limp for a moment to long — that moment when you hope for a rest and respite for your exhausted legs that have been struggling on and off to remain on tip-toes — and then the stretching and snapping of the neck, or strangulation against the collar of splintered wood that holds your neck in the final grip of death.

However, some time after this photo was taken, the above man died inside this wooden cell by another means, robbing the crowd of their chance to witness his final, desperate struggle inside the cage of death.

A friend reached up, giving him poison, thus bringing a swift end to his ordeal.

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