Posted: Aug 21, 2011 8:14 am
surreptitious57 wrote:Not directly relevant but interesting nevertheless : under Roman law if
a man had been sentenced to death and the instrument of choice was the
whip there was only a limit of thirty nine strikes that could be used. For if
the soldier administering the punishment went beyond that he then would be
sentenced to death. It is rather puzzling that in this scenario a man could end
up being threatened with death and still survive. Have no idea how effective this
was. That it would be painful is not in dispute but would it be sufficient to kill you
Without antibiotics, 39 strokes applied with sufficient gusto would probably lead to death, even if they didn't result in it immediately.