<Li> Tearing apart by horses (e.g., in medieval Europe and Imperial China, with four horses; or "quartering", with four horses, as in The Song of Roland and Child Owlet). </Li> <Li> Trampling by horses (example: Al - Musta'sim, the last Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad). </Li> <Tr> <Td> Back - breaking </Td> <Td> A Mongolian method of execution that avoided the spilling of blood on the ground (example: the Mongolian leader Jamukha was probably executed this way in 1206). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Blowing from a gun </Td> <Td> Tied to the mouth of a cannon, which is then fired . </Td> </Tr>

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