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'''[[File:97254_v1.jpg|thumb]]Souflikar''' was the personal executioner of Mahomet IV during the Ottoman Empire and killed up to three people every day for five years - he killed in total of 5,000 people and the most horrific aspect of his "career" is he never used any instruments of torture and death to do so: he personally strangled each and every victim to death with his bare hands. | '''[[File:97254_v1.jpg|thumb]]Souflikar''' was the personal executioner of Mahomet IV during the Ottoman Empire and killed up to three people every day for five years - he killed in total of 5,000 people and the most horrific aspect of his "career" is he never used any instruments of torture and death to do so: he personally strangled each and every victim to death with his bare hands. | ||
As if this was not terrifying enough, if the condemned was a Grand Vizier, it was the custom for Ottoman executioners to race the victims across the royal gardens to the place of execution - if he the Grand Vizier won, he would be | As if this was not terrifying enough, if the condemned was a Grand Vizier, it was the custom for Ottoman executioners to race the victims across the royal gardens to the place of execution - if he the Grand Vizier won, he would be banished instead of being executed<ref><nowiki>[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ottoman-empires-life-or-death-race-164064882/?no-ist The Ottoman Empire’s Life-or-Death Race]</nowiki></ref>: yet Soufliker never lost a race and still had the strength to strangle every victim he beat at the race. | ||
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Revision as of 12:37, 6 April 2015
Souflikar was the personal executioner of Mahomet IV during the Ottoman Empire and killed up to three people every day for five years - he killed in total of 5,000 people and the most horrific aspect of his "career" is he never used any instruments of torture and death to do so: he personally strangled each and every victim to death with his bare hands.
As if this was not terrifying enough, if the condemned was a Grand Vizier, it was the custom for Ottoman executioners to race the victims across the royal gardens to the place of execution - if he the Grand Vizier won, he would be banished instead of being executed[1]: yet Soufliker never lost a race and still had the strength to strangle every victim he beat at the race.
- ↑ [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ottoman-empires-life-or-death-race-164064882/?no-ist The Ottoman Empire’s Life-or-Death Race]