The year was 1810. The state was Virginia. The scene was the whipping of a runaway slave, a 12-year-old boy, receiving the 200 lashes that would kill him. “I literally saw the boy surrender to that ...

Saudi Arabia has defended a court's decision to sentence a woman who was gang-raped to 200 lashes of the whip, after the United States described the verdict as "astonishing". The 19-year-old Shi'ite ...

A Lebanese man was sentenced to 300 lashes with a whip and six years in prison for his role in helping a Saudi woman convert to Christianity and flee the kingdom in the latest example of the religious ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court has increased the sentence given to a gang rape victim to 200 lashes of the whip and six months in prison and ordered disciplinary action against her lawyer for ...