Burning for blasphemy cries of the dying silenced by applause in the name of christianity church officials parading limbless victims through the streets branded and maimed stripped to the waist wearing only their garments of shame laughter from the audience grows as the hanged defecate innards removed slowly to increase the pain heads beaten with hammers knee cape pulverized the lungs choked with burning excrement a celebration of d**h by witness others hung by the wrists amputating both legs cauterizing the wounds with torches