Sentence examples for severe flogging from inspiring English sources
A severe flogging at the age of 12 had given him his stammer.
He sentenced Titus Oates to a severe flogging and imprisonment in May 1685, and in the same month James II made him Baron Jeffreys of Wem.
When apprehended by the police at age 15 while participating in Mohandas K. Gandhi's noncooperation movement (1920 22) at Banares (now Varanasi), he gave his name as Azad (Urdu: "Free" or "Liberated") and his address as "prison". Although because of his age he was not imprisoned, he was given a severe flogging by the police.
Gaius reports that manifest theft brought a penalty of a severe flogging and enslavement for freemen.
Skull fracture, broken fingers, missing fingernails, severe abdominal bruising, burst ear membrane, broken ribs, broken nose, flogging to the legs, evidence of a brutal rape that is what the doctor described the night the body of 54-year-old Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was brought into a Tehran military hospital.
Since then, the country has been broken in two, with the lawless north slipping into a hell of medieval-era punishments like flogging, stoning, and even, reportedly, amputations, all dictated by a severe form of Sharia law practiced by the Islamist radicals who now dominate the area.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to end "severe" discrimination against girls and to repeal laws that allow the stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children.
But flogging is still flogging.
Flogging is also illegal.
