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Britain was a colonial power at that time, and this technique was generally used to execute freedom fighters, not criminals. Reference; https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/blown-from-a-gun-situating-the-british-practice-of-execution-by-cannon-in-the-context-of-southern-and-western-asia/F8D1E4818D215EA4E306BD208DFDED54 https://www.dailypioneer.com/2015/state-editions/heroic-sacrifice-of-namdharis-blown-up-by-cannons.html
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