Culture & entertainment
When Roman theater used real executions
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Roman emperors took the concept of theatrical realism to a deeply unethical extreme. When a script called for a character to meet a gruesome demise, directors would occasionally swap the lead actor with a condemned prisoner at the last second, delivering genuine capital punishment live on stage to thrill the audience.
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