[Footnote 150: _Cf._ Gråberg di Hemsö, _Specchio geografico, e statistico dell' impero Marocco_, p. 182 _sq._] On the other hand there are peoples who treat their lunatics in a very different manner. The tribes of Western Victoria put them to death, "as they have a very great dread of mad people."[151] In Kar Nicobar madness is said to be the only cause for a death "penalty" that seems to exist there, the afflicted individual being garrotted with two pieces of bamboo;[152] but this practice seems to be a method of getting rid of a dangerous individual, rather than a penalty in the proper sense of the word. Among the Washambala a lunatic who commits homicide is killed--as our informant observes, "not really on account of his deed, but in order to prevent him from causing further mischief."[153] Among the Turks of Daghestan, we are told, mad people are subject to the rule of blood-revenge.[154] [Footnote 151: Dawson, _op. cit._ p. 61.] [Footnote 152: Distant, in _Jour. Anthr. Inst._ iii. 6.] [Footnote 153: Lang, in Steinmetz, _Rechtsverhältnisse_, p. 257.] [Footnote 154: Miklosich, _loc. cit._ p. 131.] {272} In China lunatics are held responsible for their acts, although the ordinary penalty applicable is commuted, as for instance, in murder to imprisonment with fetters subject to His Majesty's pleasure. But when a lunatic deliberately kills his parents or grandparents, a representation will not serve; he is to be executed at once on the spot where the murder was committed or on the city execution ground, and the sentence--slicing to pieces--is to be carried out in all its horror though the lunatic be already dead.[155] [Footnote 155: Alabaster, _Commentaries on Chinese Law_, pp. 93, 96. _Cf._ Douglas, _Society in China_, pp. 72, 122.]