Corporal punishment
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A corporal punishment or a physical punishment is a punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person. When it is inflicted on minors, especially in home and school settings, its methods
John Stubbs has his hand cut off, England, 1579
Birching, Germany, 17th century
Foot whipping an offender, Persia, 1910s
Corporal punishment in a women's prison in the United States (ca. 1890)
Judicial corporal punishment
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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, forced amputations, caning, bastinado,
Public flogging of a woman by the Taliban in Afghanistan, early 2000s
L'Exécution de la Punition de Fouet by Jean Baptiste Debret