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A 'mock execution' is a method of psychological torture, whereby the subject is made to believe that they are being led to their execution. This usually involves blindfolding the subject, making them recount last wishes, or making them dig their own grave, and sometimes it can go as far as forcing the victim to watch a single or multiple real life executions taking place under the same circumstances to make the victim believe he or she is next. Discharging a firearm near (but not at) the victim, or firing blanks, might end the mock execution.
Water-boarding is a form of mock execution in which the victim is led to believe that continued resistance will lead to drowning.
It is hoped that by making the subject believe that they are to be executed they will be inflicted with severe psychological trauma. This may eventually lead to a break down where valuable information could be extracted, or it might act as a warning that future infractions may bring about a real execution.
Alternatively, a mock execution can be carried out where both a "shooter" and a "victim" collaborate with an interrogator who hopes to coerce a statement out of a subject who is forced to watch. Mock executions are popular in films and other entertainment as easy suspense can be created by having the protagonist subjected to what turns out to be only a mock execution, such as in the Spike Lee movie, Inside Man.
★ In 1849, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky became the victim of a now famous case of a mock execution; the pardon of the Czar was not read to him until the moment when the firing squad was already aiming their rifles at him. This traumatizing experience also shows up in his literary works.
★ On 23 March 2007, eight British servicemen were detained for three days, after Iran said they had entered Iranian territorial waters, which Britain denied. They were released unharmed, but during their detention, according to former detainee Marine Scott Fallon, they endured a mock execution.[1]
★ Reports of mock executions carried out by the US Marines on detainees in Iraq have surfaced in December 2004,[2] as the ACLU published internal documents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents were written seven weeks after the publication of the photographs which triggered the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
★ In Leo Tolstoy novel War and Peace, Pierre Bezukhov is led to believe that he has been sentenced to death when Napoleon’s solders force him to watch the exaction of Russian captives.
1. http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2179535&SectionID=455
2. http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17206&c=206
Water-boarding is a form of mock execution in which the victim is led to believe that continued resistance will lead to drowning.
It is hoped that by making the subject believe that they are to be executed they will be inflicted with severe psychological trauma. This may eventually lead to a break down where valuable information could be extracted, or it might act as a warning that future infractions may bring about a real execution.
Alternatively, a mock execution can be carried out where both a "shooter" and a "victim" collaborate with an interrogator who hopes to coerce a statement out of a subject who is forced to watch. Mock executions are popular in films and other entertainment as easy suspense can be created by having the protagonist subjected to what turns out to be only a mock execution, such as in the Spike Lee movie, Inside Man.
| Contents |
| Historical instances |
| Major literary examples |
| References |
Historical instances
★ In 1849, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky became the victim of a now famous case of a mock execution; the pardon of the Czar was not read to him until the moment when the firing squad was already aiming their rifles at him. This traumatizing experience also shows up in his literary works.
★ On 23 March 2007, eight British servicemen were detained for three days, after Iran said they had entered Iranian territorial waters, which Britain denied. They were released unharmed, but during their detention, according to former detainee Marine Scott Fallon, they endured a mock execution.[1]
★ Reports of mock executions carried out by the US Marines on detainees in Iraq have surfaced in December 2004,[2] as the ACLU published internal documents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents were written seven weeks after the publication of the photographs which triggered the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
Major literary examples
★ In Leo Tolstoy novel War and Peace, Pierre Bezukhov is led to believe that he has been sentenced to death when Napoleon’s solders force him to watch the exaction of Russian captives.
References
1. http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2179535&SectionID=455
2. http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17206&c=206
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