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One elderly man (Pringamurra, also called Spider) and two women (Warradamngenmia, also called Biddy; and Narilung, also called Polly) died later that day. [2] Another man (Jabramurra, also called Kandy) and two girls (Haberine, also called Louie, aged about twelve; and Wireroo, also called Minnie, aged about eight) were also flogged and left ...
One exception is Journey Among Women (1977), a feminist imagining of what life was like for convict women. [35] Alexander Pearce, the infamous Tasmanian convict and cannibal, is the inspiration for The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008), Dying Breed (2008) and Van Diemen's Land (2009).
Norway: Women are allowed to teach in the rural elementary school system (in the city schools in 1869). [23] New Zealand: Married women allowed to own property (extended in 1870). [9] United States, New York: New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 passed. [58] Married women granted the right to control their own earnings. [28]
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 ...
Corporal punishment was practised in Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome in order to maintain judicial and educational discipline. [11] Disfigured Egyptian criminals were exiled to Tjaru and Rhinocorura on the Sinai border, a region whose name meant "cut-off noses." Corporal punishment was prescribed in ancient Israel, but it was limited to 40 ...
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.
The cat o' nine tails, commonly shortened to the cat, is a type of multi-tailed whip or flail.It originated as an implement for physical punishment, particularly in the Royal Navy and British Army, and as a judicial punishment in Britain and some other countries.
The Bender family, more well known as the Bloody Benders, were a family of serial killers in Labette County, Kansas, United States, from May 1871 to December 1872. [1] The family supposedly consisted of John Bender, his wife Elvira (or Almira), their son John Jr., and their daughter Kate.