The prisoner was brought to the scaffold and tied to the side of a wheel lying on the scaffold, stretched across its spokes and hub. Now the executioner advanced, wielding an iron bar. His brief was to shatter the limbs one by one with the hefty weapon. Each arm and leg was broken in several places before the job was done. A skilled executioner would smash the bones of his victim without piercing the skin. The wheel was then propped upright so onlookers could appreciate the dying gasps of the victim.
