"Cruel and Unusual Punishments" is the sixth episode of the third season and the twenty-second overall episode of the HBO television series Oz.
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Life in Oz sucks, and only a fool or a Republican will tell you different. But the punishments they got going here are nowhere near as fucked up as in olden days. Example: If a guy drank too much, the constable would make him wear a drunkard's cloak. Which was a whiskey barrel with holes for the head, the arms, and the legs! Then they'd make the drunk walk around the town square where everyone would call him names.
In the 1600's, snitches and gossips were made to wear something called a "Brank", which was an iron helmet that was placed on the head, enclosing it in a kind of cage. There was a front plate covered with spikes which was placed inside the mouth, so that if you tried to talk, well, you get the idea. You learn to keep your mouth shut.
Drawing and quartering. A man was tied to the tail of a horse and dragged along the ground to a gallows, where he was hung 'til he was half-dead, then brought down, his body cut open, his entrails taken out and burned. Then his head cut off and his body sliced into quarters. After all that indignity, the hangman would hold up the dead man's heart and yell "Behold, the heart of a traitor!"
Prisoner number 99K515, Hamid Khan. Convicted March 6th, '99, aggravated assault. Sentence: 10 years. Up for parole in 5.
My all-time favorite punishment? It's called 'Riding the Stang'. The wittiest person in town would be put on a chair, carried around the streets by his fellow townspeople while he banged on a bucket and yelled out dirty limericks condemning the accused. Being made fun of, being humiliated in front of everyone else in your community. That may be the cruelest punishment of all. (breaths heavily)
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William Cudney- Stabbed twice in neck by Yuri Kosygin, paid for by Ryan O'Reily
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Hamid Khan: Aggravated assault