تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.38

12.38.1

He had a brother named Masʿūd Khān, whose mother was the daughter of Sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, and he was of the most handsome form I have seen in the world. He accused him of rising against him and questioned him about it, and he confessed out of fear of torture, for whoever denies a charge of this kind brought against him by the Sultan is tortured! So people consider death easier for them than torture. He gave orders about him and his head was struck off in the middle of the market, and he remained lying there for three days according to their custom. The mother of this slain man had been stoned in that same place two years before for confessing to adultery; the qāḍī Kamāl al-Dīn had her stoned.