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One private, with experience in other regiments, recounted that the 7th Hussars flogged more harshly than other units where trumpeters, who were often boys, administered the punishment. [7] Colonel Whyte. The flogging was carried out on 15 June 1846, in front of 200 to 300 men of the regiment formed in a three-sided square in the riding school.
Flagellation (Latin flagellum, 'whip'), flogging or whipping is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, the knout, etc. Typically, flogging has been imposed on an unwilling subject as a punishment; however, it can also be submitted to willingly and even done by ...
Following Fay's sentence, the case received coverage by the American, Singaporean and international media. [11]Some US news outlets launched scathing attacks on Singapore's judicial system for what they considered an "archaic punishment", while others turned the issue into one of Singapore asserting "Asian values" towards "western decadence". [12]
All ten men on board the two planes were killed, including director Kenneth Hawks (brother of Howard Hawks), assistant director Max Gold, cinematographer Conrad Wells, director of photography George Eastman, cameramen Otto Jordan and Ben Frankel, two property men and both pilots. Only five bodies were recovered.
Including a flogging as Sharpe meets him here is a callback to their first meeting (in Sharpe's Eagle, both book and screenplay), where Simmerson is having men flogged for the crimes of others, and it serves the purpose of marking Simmerson out as antithetical to Sharpe, who was himself unjustly flogged as a Private.
In April 2020, the Saudi Supreme Court ended the flogging punishment from its court system, and replaced it with jail time or fines. [52] As of 2009 [update] , some regions of Pakistan are experiencing a breakdown of law and government, leading to a reintroduction of corporal punishment by ad hoc Islamicist courts. [ 53 ]
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]
The flogging was delivered on 1 April 1958. Taylor and O'Meally were the last men flogged in Victoria. O'Meally said that the flogging opened his rib cage, that he was placed back in his cell with open chest and back wounds, and was not given any medical attention. He said he took three months to recover. [8]