Horses were not the on;y animal to be used as a stretch animal. In India the elephant is the traditional method and more.
In1814, a Bombay newspaper published this account of an execution in Baroda:
"The man was a slave, and two days before had murdered his master, brother to a chieftan, named Ameer Shabin. About 11a.m.
the elephant was brought out, with only the driver on its back, surrounded by natives with bamboo in their hands. The criminal
was placed three yards behind on the ground, his legs tied by three ropes, which were fastened to a ring on the right hind leg of
the animal. At every step the elephant took, it jerked him fowards, and eight or 10 steps must have dislocated every limb, for
they were loose and broken when the elephant had proceeded 500 yards. The man, though covered with mud, showed every sign
of life, and seemed to be in the most excruciating torments. After being tortured in this manner for about an hour, he wa taken to
the outside of town, when the elephant, which is instructed for such purposes, is backed, and puts his foot on the head of the
criminal."