Other names for this
horrible death include "Torture of the Knife",
Ling-chy, execution by the "slow process" or by the "slicing process". This is usually reserved for the
punishment of
parricide.
There is also some suspicion that the technique has been largely if not entirely displaced by a method of execution in which no element of chance is allowed to interfere with the infliction of one of the most frightful forms imaginable of death by torture. No basket with its multiplicity of marked knives enter into it. A single keen bladed instrument is used and the slicings, cuttings, hackings and amputations proceed slowly step by step through the whole ghastly allotted course.