 In the Holy Roman Empire it was a "mirror punishment" for highwaymen and street thieves, and was set out in the "Sachsenspiegel" for murder, and arson that resulted in fatalities.Those convicted as murderers and/or robbers to be executed by the wheel, sometimes termed to be "wheeled" or "broken by the wheel", would be taken to a public stage scaffold site and tied to the floor.The execution wheel was typically a large wooden spoked wheel, the same as was used on wooden transport carts and carriages (often with iron rim), sometimes purposely modified with a rectangular iron thrust attached and extending blade-like from part of the rim.