Parading on a donkey is a traditional psychological punishment, consisting in a public humiliation.
The efficacy of traditional, community-based punishments waned during the eighteenth century.
Some viewed traditional public punishments as the most republican mechanism for criminal justice, due to their inherent transparency.
Some 1500 native prisoners had their right hand and left foot cut off, the traditional punishment for fighting against their country: most of them died.
They were merely carrying out the traditional punishment.
I sentence you to death by strangulation, the traditional punishment of the traitor.
Or maybe I'll chop off her hands-that's the traditional punishment for thieves, isn't it?
If the girls break this rule, he has no hesitation in using the full range of traditional punishments.
Scourging was the first step in the traditional Roman punishment for parricide.
It was the traditional punishment for escaped slaves.