- corporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
--1 is a kind of punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
--1 has particulars:beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking; electric shock; execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty; gauntlet, gantlet; kick in the butt; stoning, lapidation