Over a combined period of 19 years, Fairbanks was reported to have received 35,000 lashes in prison.

Also in 1992, a woman accused of adultery received 200 lashes.

Early this year, a 17-year-old girl in Zamfara received 100 lashes for the same offense.

He said received 100 lashes for being caught with a packet of coffee.

The mother later received 200 lashes for her defiant behavior.

But the Sages said that they received only 40 lashes.

He served 83 days, and on May 5 he received four lashes.

Last month a man who was caught drinking alcohol in public received 80 lashes with a cane.

The death penalty was available for the crime which actually received two dozen lashes, or even no punishment at all.

The man who had received 15 lashes told of a horrifying ordeal.