Note 40 — Chapter XXVI · Murder As a Governmental Agency
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Burning alive was occasionally resorted to.40 More frequently, the victims had their eyes put out, their tongues cut out, and were then turned loose to shift for themselves. Justice Johnson,41 of the Philippine Supreme Court, has described to me a case in which four policemen of a town which had received him in a friendly manner, were served in this way, and the procedure was a comparatively common one.