This year marks Celtic-punk heavyweights Flogging Molly’s 25th year as a band. At least that was when singer-guitarist Dave King and fiddle player Bridget Regan — also King’s future wife — began ...

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 ...

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 ...