Given the choice between five years in prison and 10 lashes, which would you chose? Peter Moskos, a criminologist and former Baltimore police officer, claims that flogging (a form of corporal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indonesian woman was whipped 100 times over an affair for which the man got 15 lashes, AFP reported. Public flogging is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian musician known for protest songs that call out his country’s strict dress codes for women, was given 74 ...

Flogging someone with a cane causes intense pain and permanent bodily damage. An Australian who was flogged for drug trafficking in Malaysia in the 1970s recalled that the cane “chewed hungrily ...

When Peter Moskos' new book landed on my desk, I wasn't sure if it was going to be a treatise on crime and punishment or some sort of kinky sex manual. Its title: "In Defense of Flogging." You rascal, ...

Punishment is meant to reform an offender but in some jurisdictions, it must be meted out to whoever deserves it at all cost; even if it would result in death. An Indonesian man reportedly fainted ...

A teenage girl has been sentenced to a 90-lash flogging and two months in prison as punishment for assaulting a teacher, a Saudi judge said in an interview published Sunday. Human rights group Amnesty ...

A Saudi court will review the case of a teenage gang rape victim sentenced to jail and flogging after she was convicted of violating the country's strict sex segregation laws, the foreign minister ...

The death of Mahsa Amini sparked protests in and outside of Iran — Yasin AKGUL A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that he was ...