Chapter 4 Part Two: Watching Executions by Shooting for the First Time

It has been mentioned that a method of kidnapping people is used to kidnap people before execution.The punishment is of course the death penalty.It is said that in the past, death row prisoners must be beheaded in this way.It's really lucky that I haven't seen beheading. After all, human beings are progressing.The few executions I have seen are very civilized: execution by shooting. The execution method of execution by shooting is often seen in novels and movies, but it is one thing to see it in novels and movies, and it is completely different to actually see it in person.More than 30 years later, every time I think about it, it still has the effect of losing weight. The chest and abdomen feel tight, and the vomiting is not enough. Where can I eat?

It was when the land reform movement reached its climax, among the landlords who were tortured, naturally, there must be a group of heinous crimes that required the execution of the death penalty. Before the execution of the death penalty, for example, there is a public trial meeting. More than a thousand people attend the public trial meeting. In fact, before the trial, the death penalty announcement has already been written. Then write a big warning word, and as soon as it is pasted on the bulletin board, the death penalty will be executed immediately. (I once wondered why the death penalty report must be written like this with a red pen. A senior person said: It has always been like this. Since it has always been like this, it is natural to follow the same pattern and not be ingenious.)

Those who were sentenced to death had been tied up long ago.The first time I watched the shooting, there were six people in total, four men and two women, who were the family members of two landlords. Amidst the slogans of thousands of people, the three older people were already stunned. I really doubt that they were at that time. They are already dead, but the three middle-aged men are obviously sane. Behind each of them, there is a soldier, holding a loose buckle tightly in his hand, and hemp rope is tied around their necks. When I made a sound, I could only see their eyeballs moving wildly. Human eyeballs are originally very flexible, but it is the first experience that they can turn at such a large angle and such a large range. It looks extremely terrifying, like It's like the two eyeballs are unwilling to die with the death of the whole body, and want to earn their eye sockets to survive alone!

In this situation, the three people are without exception, is it a natural reaction before the death of a person, or before death in this situation?I'm afraid we have to wait for experts to study it. It was a hot day and the temperature was extremely high, but in this situation, it already felt gloomy. Even though it was sweating profusely under the scorching sun, it didn't feel hot at all. (Under different circumstances, when people are close to death, they often have a fixed expression, which is very strange, such as the strange expression before freezing to death.) In ancient and modern China and abroad, how many people have been executed?There is absolutely no accurate statistics. A person who is sane and knows that he is healthy and is going to be executed, what are they thinking before they die?Could it be that their thoughts are the same, which caused their eyes to roll rapidly?

In short, the strange movement of the eyeballs is shocking enough, but compared to the situation during the execution, it is of course nothing. Six people were pushed onto a truck, escorted by soldiers, and went straight to the execution ground.The so-called execution ground is an outer space not far from the public trial assembly.Along with him were members of the army and the land reform task force.There were also two trucks carrying activists in the land reform movement to watch the execution. When they arrived at the execution ground, a man and two women were elderly. When they were taken out of the car, they were already limp and paralyzed like a pile of mud. They didn't look like human beings at all, let alone living people.As for the three middle-aged men, their eyes rolled as before, their heads were sweating, and when they were lifted off the truck, one of them struggled a bit.

However, under the heavy ties, it was useless to struggle, only to make the escorting soldiers pull the rope tighter. It seemed that if the rope was pulled tighter, he would have been strangled to death without waiting for the bullet to end his life. Pushed to the open space, the three limp as mud couldn't kneel at all, they just fell to the ground.Of the three middle-aged men, two were kicked and knelt down, and one was so stubborn that he refused to kneel no matter how much they were kicked and beaten. He was the one who struggled when he got out of the car. The firing squad is the army, and they use ordinary rifles. Everything happens in an instant. The activists who watched the execution kept shouting slogans, and the gunshots rang out.

In an instant, everyone stopped talking, and those who opened their mouths could not make a sound, as if all the voices were frozen, only the clear and crisp gunshots, which shook people's hearts.Then, everything the eyes saw made people tremble involuntarily. Of the three people who fell on the ground, each of them had been shot in the head many times.White brains, red blood (shockingly thick) poured out and flowed to the ground.The two kneeling had brains and thick blood running down their faces, and they both opened their mouths in a terrifying manner.Then, the one who was kicked down, and the one who refused to kneel, was shot the most, and half of his head was even missing.But strangely, one of his eyes could still be seen, and it was still open, but he didn't have the courage to pay attention to whether his eye was still moving.

Until now, sometimes I still see that eye in nightmares, although I closed it almost immediately because I was too timid to look any further. I admit timidity, are you brave enough?