He would rather die than surrender under the enemy's cruel torture.
Executing cruel torture to decrease crime rate finally causes heavy penalty thought, but returning punishment for kindness actually has the tendency to light punishment.
The effective approach to resolve mine disasters is that of mining rights should be owned by vendue and the implement of mining rights should be safeguard by cruel torture and severe law.
In order to pursuing non-punishment, the Legalist school advocated the policy of executing cruel torture to decrease crime rate, but the Confucianist advocated the policy of returning punishment for kindness.
Caning is one of the cruel tortures.