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A scourge is a whip or lash, especially a multi-thong type, used to inflict severe corporal punishment or self-mortification. It is usually made of leather. It is usually made of leather. Etymology
According to the Torah (Deuteronomy 25:1–3) and Rabbinic law lashes may be given for offenses that do not merit capital punishment, and may not exceed 40. However, in the absence of a Sanhedrin, corporal punishment is not practiced in Jewish law. Halakha specifies the lashes must be given in sets of three, so the total number cannot exceed 39 ...
A sentence of 100 or 120 lashes was equivalent to a death sentence. [citation needed] Emperor Nicholas I abolished punishment by knout in 1845, after years of deliberation, and replaced it with the pleti, [2] a lighter whip, commonly with three tails, which was used previously for punishment as well. [3]
Judicial corporal punishment is the infliction of corporal punishment as a result of a sentence imposed on an offender by a court of law, including flagellation (also called flogging or whipping), forced amputations, caning, bastinado, birching, or strapping.
Three dozen was a common punishment. Three hundred lashes were frequently given. [5] The offence of sodomy generally drew the death penalty, though one eighteenth century court martial awarded a punishment of one thousand lashes – an equivalent sentence as it would likely be fatal. [6]
Caning was a common form of judicial punishment and official school discipline in many parts of the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Corporal punishment (with a cane or any other implement) has now been outlawed in much, but not all, of Europe. [2]
' whipping ') is a type of flagellation, and a punishment mentioned in the Torah. The punishment was given to Jews who violated one of Mitzvah's lo te'aseh bemeizid. According to Hebrew teachings, Malkot cannot prevent a punishment that is yet to come afterlife. In Judaism, there are 207 violations that could result in Malkot. [1]
A depiction of a man tied on a flogging ladder from a 1 August 1846 report on White's flogging. Frederick John White was a private in the British Army's 7th Hussars.While serving at the Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow, in 1846, White touched a sergeant with a metal bar during an argument while drunk.