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pine tar also didn't get as hot as miscellaneous other tars you might have easier access to today. if you did it with asphalt you'd just be inefficiently murdering them.
Tbf a lot of old timey punishments sound like inefficient murder
yeah, even so, the burns meant a decent chunk of people who it was done to died. it was just collective so hard to prosecute.