Legal humor here.
“You lower it slowly, slowly, until they expire in an agony of anticipation.”
“This one is for venial sins.”
“At this point I can’t figure out whether to market it as a form of punishment or a parlor game.”
“And, for the Inquisition, we can just slip on the old mailed fist.”
“I like to think of it as threatening, yet humane. It lets you let the prisoner punish himself.”
“Think of it as an alternative to beheading rather than a substitute.”
“It takes forever to behead someone. And what most of these clowns really need is just a good punch in the nose.”
“It’s got a very ecumenical vibe, but, you know, with authority.”
“Sure, beheading gets you the young males, 18-25, but you lose everybody else.”
“After five or six belts we ask the crowd to call it. Audience participation is ratings gold.”
