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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.
Amputation is the removal of a limb or other body part by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene.
Rhinotomy is mutilation, usually amputation, of the nose. It was a means of judicial punishment throughout the world, particularly for sexual transgressions, but in the case of adultery often applied only to women.
Around 33 countries in the world still retain judicial corporal punishment, including a number of former British territories such as Botswana, Malaysia, Singapore and Tanzania. In Singapore, for certain specified offences, males are routinely sentenced to caning in addition to a prison term.
As a general rule, Iranian judicial authorities do not carry out amputation. [citation needed] In Iran, amputation as punishment was described as "uncommon" in 2010, [32] but in 2014 there were three sentences of hand amputation, and one of eye gouging in 2015. [33] Fingers, but not the complete hand, were amputated as punishment four times in ...
This category is itself a subcategory of Physical punishments: all corporal punishments are physical, but not all physical punishments (e.g. capital punishment or amputation) are what is meant by "corporal punishment". Most types of corporal punishment are named after the implement or apparatus used to inflict the punishment.
After her amputation, she wanted to pay further respects to her arm. So she sent the limb to a mortician who embalmed it and held an open-casket funeral for it with her friends and family.
The Supreme Judicial Council of Saudi Arabia supervises the lower courts and provides legal opinions and advice to the King and reviews sentences of death, stoning, and amputation. There are also non-Sharia courts covering specialized areas of law, the most important of which is the Board of Grievances. [45]