Whipping
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WHIPPING, punishment. The infliction of stripes.
2. This mode of punishment, which is still practiced in some of the
states, is a relict of barbarism; it has yielded in most of the middle and
northern states to the penitentiary system.
3. The punishment of whipping, so far as the same was provided by the
laws of the United States, was abolished by the act of congress of February
28, 1839, s. 5. Vide 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 796; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.