Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Flagellation, referred to as flogging in the British military, was a form of corporal punishment inflicted by means of whipping the back of the prisoner. [1] Flogging was authorised in the British Army by the Mutiny Act 1689 and by the 18th century was in common use, with sentences of up to 1,000 lashes not being unusual.
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]
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]
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
This Thomas Nast illustration depicts the cat-o-nine-tails lash in use. There was a form of whipping called hand sawing: "Jones figured that 'hand-sawing' probably meant 'a beating administered with the toothed-edge of a saw'." [9] In November 1838, J. R. Long reported that a slave who had run away from his plantation had been caught. He added ...
Judicial corporal punishment in a women's prison, USA (ca. 1890) American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool. [66] In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable in American and English towns. [67]
Birching in a women's prison, US (c. 1890) 1839 caricature by George Cruikshank of a school flogging Edmund Bonner punishing a heretic in Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563) It was the most common school and judicial punishment in Europe up to the mid-19th century, when caning gained increasing popularity.