• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Hooray, a Persian Gulf country sentenced someone to a punishment other than death for a harmless crime!

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      1 year ago

      I thought 74 Lashes were clearly lethal?

      AFAIK there is nothing humane about such a sentence, on the contrary, it can mean slow and painful death.

      I just tried to find this out, in most muslim countries, the too many lashes are spread out over several times, to avoid death. A limit is for example 50 lashes per time in Saudi Arabia.

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              1 year ago

              I think Barbarian comes from much later when the Barbary Pirates were kidnapping people and razing villages and towns to the ground and forcing people into slavery. I think “Goths” and “Vandals” would be more appropriate, but I could be wildly mistaken

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        1 year ago

        Obligatory I don’t agree with the mess going on in Iran.

        With that out of the way, there’s a decent amount of restrictions on the lashing process to make the sentence painful but not lethal or permanently disabling. Lashing someone with all your strength and ripping the flesh off their back pre-Civil War America style isn’t a thing., because ripping the flesh off people’s backs tends to kill them.