It looks at first glance like a guillotine for beheading people, but evidently the device at the head end is just for holding the culprit's head firm during the flogging. Note straps/chains for securing lower body to bench. This appears to be essentially the same as the previous item, possibly suggesting that standard equipment was provided centrally. This one is at the Niederösterreich (Lower Austria) regional museum at St Pölten. "Dahomey - Préparation à la bastonnade" (Preparations for whipping)īenin, in West Africa, was known as Dahomey until 1975. This postcard has a look of the early 20th century about it. Since the caption is given in French, we can probably date it to later than 1894, when France established itself as the colonial power. The offender is held in position lying flat on the ground. We see clearly that his buttocks are being bared for punishment. ![]() ![]() One might speculate that this typically African procedure predates the arrival of the French, for whom formal judicial CP would have been an alien concept, and that the new colonial regime just left the local rulers to carry on as before in this regard.ĭemonstration on a dummy of judicial caning in Brunei The implement to be used would appear to be the whip lying on the ground to the left. This is clearly what it says it is, and it comes from the now-defunct webpage of the Brunei school at which the demonstration took place, as a live illustration for an anti-drug talk. ![]() #JUDICIAL CONSENT 1994 MOVIE DOWNLOAD FULL#.
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