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  2. Corporal punishment - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Scourge - Wikipedia

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    Its use as a punishment was general in the seventh century in all monasteries of the severe Columban rule. [ 11 ] Canon law ( Decree of Gratian , Decretals of Gregory IX ) recognized it as a punishment for ecclesiastics; even as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it appears in ecclesiastical legislation as a punishment for ...

  4. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    The punishment was only ever applied to men; for reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burned at the stake. It became a statutory punishment in the Kingdom of England for high treason in 1352 under King Edward III (1327–1377), although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272).

  5. Cock and ball torture - Wikipedia

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    Cock and ball torture (CBT) [a] is a sexual activity involving the application of pain or constriction to the male genitals.This may involve directly painful activities, such as genital piercing, wax play, genital spanking, squeezing, ball-busting, genital flogging, urethral play, tickle torture, erotic electrostimulation, kneeing, or kicking. [1]

  6. School corporal punishment - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Category:Punishments - Wikipedia

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  8. Caning of Michael Fay - Wikipedia

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    Following Fay's sentence, the case received coverage by the American, Singaporean and international media. [11]Some US news outlets launched scathing attacks on Singapore's judicial system for what they considered an "archaic punishment", while others turned the issue into one of Singapore asserting "Asian values" towards "western decadence". [12]

  9. Spanking - Wikipedia

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    Spanking is a form of corporal punishment involving the act of striking, with either the palm of the hand or an implement, the buttocks of a person to cause physical pain. The term spanking broadly encompasses the use of either the hand or implement, though the use of certain implements can also be characterized as other, more specific types of ...