Nine familial exterminations
The nine familial exterminations or nine kinship exterminations or execution of nine relations, also known as zú zhū, literally "family execution" and miè zú, literally "family extermination") was the most serious punishment for a capital offense in premodern China, Korea and Vietnam. A collective punishment typically associated with offenses such as treason, the punishment involved the execution of all relatives of an individual, which were categorized into nine groups. Nine exterminations were often done by slow slicing. The occurrence of this punishment was somewhat rare, with relatively few sentences recorded throughout history.
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