What is Blowing from a cannon?
'''Blowing from a cannon''' was a method of [[execution]] in which the victim was tied to the mouth of a [[cannon]] which was fired immediately after. The method was popular with [[British]] colonial authorities in [[India]] and used on revolters. This method of capital punishment was favoured by the British as a [[Hindu]] belief states that the body must be intact to go into the [[afterlife]]. In [[Africa]], the [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] colonial authorities also used the method. [[Category:Capital punishment]]