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Stocks, unlike the pillory or pranger, restrain only the feet.. Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code.
Flagellation was so common in England as punishment that caning (and spanking and whipping) are called "the English vice". [ 33 ] Flogging was a common disciplinary measure in the Royal Navy that became associated with a seaman's manly disregard for pain. [ 34 ]
The Bastinado was a common punishment during Mexico's Porfirian era, when the Rurales secret police would commonly use bull penises for the task. [10] In the United States, corporal punishment through foot whipping was reported from juvenile penal institutions until 1969, as for example in Massachusetts. [6]
The Strappado, used as public punishment, detail of plate 10 of Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot, 1633. The strappado, also known as corda, [1] is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are tied behind their back and the victim is suspended by a rope attached to the wrists, typically resulting in dislocated shoulders.
Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks. Corporal punishment in the context of schools in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been variously defined as: causing deliberate pain to a child in response to the child's undesired behavior and/or language, [12] "purposeful infliction of bodily pain or discomfort by an official in the educational system upon a student as a penalty for ...
Peine forte et dure (Law French for "forceful and hard punishment") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead ("stood mute") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe ...
The Spanish boot was an iron casing for the leg and foot. Wood or iron wedges were hammered in between the casing and the victim's flesh. A similar device, commonly referred to as a shin crusher, squeezed the calf between two curved iron plates, studded with spikes, teeth, and knobs, to fracture the tibia and fibula.
The punishment involved the execution of close and extended family members. [3] [4] These included: The criminal's parents; The criminal's grandparents; Any children the criminal may have, over a certain age (varying over different eras, children below that age becoming slaves) and—if married—their spouses.