See Also: CASTIGATORY, punishments(law)
COMMUTATION, punishments(law)
RACK, punishments(law)
TORTURE, punishments(law)
ARBITRARY PUNISHMENTS, practice(law)
VILLENOUS JUDGMENT, punishments(law)

CASTIGATORY, punishments (law)


CASTIGATORY, punishments. An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool. This barbarous punishment has tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States. 12 S.