Korea

The Korean king Yeongjo of Joseon (r. 1724—1776) executed his mentally ill son, Crown Prince Sado, in 1762 by locking him up in a huge rice chest. It is said that Sado died of suffocation after eight days.

Morocco

In a newspaper clipping from 1906, the fate of a murderous cobbler from Marrakesh is described. He was found guilty of murdering 36 women and burying them underneath his shop and in his garden. Moroccan powers wanted to make sure others didn’t follow in his footsteps, so he was sentenced to be walled up alive. For two days after his immurement his screams were heard constantly, but from the third day, all was quiet.

All in all, on a global scale it seems that immurement wasn’t used as consistently as hanging or decapitation. It was one of those punishments that was so dark it was saved for “special” occasions. In the modern world we don’t have to worry about it too much which is a bonus.

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