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,
Birching of Anabaptist martyr Ursula, Maastricht, 1570; engraving by Jan Luyken from Martyrs Mirror
Judicial corporal punishment in a women's prison, USA (ca. 1890)
Public flogging of a woman by the Taliban in Afghanistan, early 2000s
L'Exécution de la Punition de Fouet by Jean Baptiste Debret
Switch (corporal punishment)
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A switch is a thin, flexible twig from a tree or shrub used as an implement in corporal punishment. The application of a switch is called switching.
Switch in Adam Johann Braun's Maedchenschule, 1789