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> 1705 The sawing of Alcaide Melec
>
> One of the most notorious cases of sawing as
> execution is that of the Alcaide[25]
> (castellan/governor) Melec under emperor Moulay
> Ishmael (r.1672-1727). The fullest description of
> this execution is found in Dominique Busnot's[26]
> 1714 work "Histoire du règne de Mouley Ismael",
> although a brief notice of the event can be found
> in the January 1706 edition of "Present state of
> Europe".[27] In the following, the tale as told by
> Busnot will be given.[4] Melec was judged as the
> chief rebel to be punished in a rebellion
> instigated by one of the emperor's sons, Mulay
> Muhammad. In particular, according to Busnot, the
> empress was incensed that Melec had personally
> beheaded one of her cousins, Ali Bouchasra.[28] In
> September/October 1705,[27] Mulay Ismail sent for
> his chief carpenter, and asked if his saws were
> capable of sawing a man in two. The carpenter
> answered "Sure enough". He was then given the
> grisly task, and before he left, he asked him
> whether Melec should be sawn across or along the
> length. The emperor said the sawing should proceed
> lengthwise, from the head downwards. He told,
> however, Boachasra's sons, they should follow the
> carpenter and decide for themselves how best to
> take revenge upon the murderer (i.e., Melec) of
> their father. Taking with him 8 of the public
> executioner's assistants, the master carpenter
> went to the prison where Melec was held, two of
> his brand new saws packed in cloth, in order to
> keep from Melec information of the intended manner
> of execution. Melec was now placed on a mule,
> bound with an iron chain, and led to the public
> square, where some 4000 of his relatives and
> members of his tribe were assembled. These made a
> "terrifying" spectacle through screaming, and
> clawing their faces in a public display of grief.
> Melec, on the other hand, seemed unperturbed,
> calmly smoking from his tobacco pipe. When taken
> down from the mule, Melec's clothes were removed,
> damning letters "proving" his treason was cast in
> the fire. Then, he was strapped onto a board, and
> placed upon a sawbench, his arms and legs
> fastened. The executioner team then sought to
> start by sawing him from the head downwards, but
> Boucasra's sons intervened, and demanded that one
> began between Melec's legs instead, because
> otherwise, he would die too quickly. Under the
> terrible screams of Melec and his relatives, thus
> began his execution. Once they had sawed him up to
> the navel, they pulled out the saw in order to
> commence from the other side. Melec is said to
> have been still conscious, asking for some water.
> His friends, though, thought it best to hasten his
> demise and shorten his sufferings, and the
> executioners went on, sawing him from skull to
> navel so he fell apart. In the process, chunks of
> flesh was ripped out by the saw's teeth, blood
> splattering everywhere, making the execution quite
> unbearable to watch..
>
> Around 300 other conspirators were impaled alive,
> and another report states that in addition to
> these, some other 20 chief conspirators had their
> arms and legs sawed off, and left to expire in the
> marketplace.[27]
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