[Hank Rearden]

750 lashes? Is that even survivable?

Stupid damn Moos. Islam must die.

[Jean S]

There is no doubt that 750 lashes would kill you. If this was a misprint, I think that 75 lashes would likely kill you too.

[endthematrix]

Sentences under 50 are more common. There have been 100 and 175 lashing sentences...750? Death sentence.

[airedale]

I think I read somewhere that they do this in stages. They give you so many then let you heal and then give you the next set until your sentence is complete. That's better than what the British did to mutineers during the Napoleonic era and latter. You'd get sentenced to X number of strokes. You'd be flogged X number of strokes at the flagship and then rowed to the next ship and flogged X number of times until it was done in front of each ship in port. If 20 ships were in port then you got 20 times X. They usually waited until they got to a major port to impose this punishment. After they finished flogging you they hung you and left you there for quite a while as a warning to others. It wasn't as long as they left criminals on shore hanging (until they fell apart) but you get the idea.

[airedale]

I decided to look it up. I found the following at: http://www.amnesty.ca/SaudiArabia/3.php

"The most lashes in a single case recorded by Amnesty International is 4,000. These were imposed on Muhammad ’Ali al-Sayyid, an Egyptian national who was convicted of robbery in 1990. The sentence was carried out at a rate of 50 lashes every two weeks. Each time he received the lashes he was left with bruised or bleeding buttocks, unable to sleep or sit for three or four days afterwards. "