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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Blowing from a gun is a method of execution in which the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon and the cannon is fired. George Carter Stent describes the process as follows:The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some 40 or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seenBlowing from a gun was a reported means of execution as long ago as the 16th century, and was used until the 20th century. The method was utilized by Portuguese colonialists in the 16th and 17th centuries, from Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka, as early as 1509), to Mozambique and to South America, for example in Brazil. The Mughals used the method throughout the 17th century and into the 18th, particularly against rebels.Arguably, the nation most well known to have implemented this type of execution is Great Britain in its role as colonial master in India, and in particular, as a punishment for native soldiers found guilty of mutiny or desertion. The British began implementing blowing from guns in the latter half of the 18th century, with the most intense period of use being during the repression of the Great Rebellion of 1857.The practice is said to have been still in use in Afghanistan until 1930.. }

• Blowing_from_a_gun abstract "Blowing from a gun is a method of execution in which the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon and the cannon is fired. George Carter Stent describes the process as follows:The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some 40 or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seenBlowing from a gun was a reported means of execution as long ago as the 16th century, and was used until the 20th century. The method was utilized by Portuguese colonialists in the 16th and 17th centuries, from Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka, as early as 1509), to Mozambique and to South America, for example in Brazil. The Mughals used the method throughout the 17th century and into the 18th, particularly against rebels.Arguably, the nation most well known to have implemented this type of execution is Great Britain in its role as colonial master in India, and in particular, as a punishment for native soldiers found guilty of mutiny or desertion. The British began implementing blowing from guns in the latter half of the 18th century, with the most intense period of use being during the repression of the Great Rebellion of 1857.The practice is said to have been still in use in Afghanistan until 1930.".