Editing Breaking wheel (section)

===Later use===
The breaking wheel was used as a form of execution in Germany as recently as the early 19th century. Its use as a method of execution was not fully abolished in Bavaria until 1813, and still in use until 1836 in [[Electorate of Hesse|Hesse-Kassel]]. In [[Prussia]], the punishment of death was inflicted by [[decapitation]] with a large sword, by burning, and by breaking on the wheel. At the time, the Prussian penal code required a criminal to be broken upon the wheel when a particularly heinous crime had been committed.  The king always issued an order to the executioner to strangle the criminal (which was done by a small cord not easily seen) before his limbs were broken.  The last execution by this stronger form of capital punishment, of Rudolf Kühnapfel, was on 13 August 1841.<ref>Blazek, Matthias: „Letzte Hinrichtung durch Rädern im Königreich Preußen am 13. August 1841" (In the Kingdom of Prussia a criminal was broken upon the wheel for the last time on  13 August 1841), in: Fachprosaforschung&nbsp;– Grenzüberschreitungen. Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV), Baden-Baden, ed. 7, 2011, p. 339–343. {{Cite book |last=Burrill |first=Alexander |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztgUAAAAYAAJ&q=prussia+1841+breaking+wheel&pg=PA620 |title=A Law Dictionary and Glossary |publisher=Baker Voorheis and Co. |year=1870 |edition=2nd |volume=2 |location=New York, NY |page=620 |author-link=Alexander Burrill |access-date=21 March 2010}} Rudolf Kühnapfel, [[assassin]] of Andreas Stanislaus von Hatten, the Bishop of [[Warmia]], was sentenced to be executed in this manner, though he was killed by [[strangulation]] before his corpse was broken on the wheel.</ref>