In the Royal Navy the punishment prescribed for most serious crimes was flogging. This was administered by the Bosun’s Mate using a whip called a cat o’ nine tails. The “cat” was kept in a leather or ...

UNLESS the government of Singapore relents and changes its mind, 18-year-old Michael Fay will soon suffer a flogging of six strokes with a moistened rattan cane administered by a martial arts expert.

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