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The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine( 's) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death. The practice was abolished in Bavaria in 1813 and in the Electorate of Hesse in 1836: the ... Wikipedia