tarring and feathering

Tarring and feathering isn't really going to hurt anyone, but it will shame them.

Tarring and feathering also serves as means of extended humiliation.

Tarring and feathering was not just something males did.

After much discussion a punishment of tarring and feathering substituted.

As part of their uprising, the inmates treated the staff to tarring and feathering.

He was just a young boy at the time, but he remembers the tarring and feathering.

Some practices, such as tarring and feathering, became tools of unofficial mob justice.

Tarring and feathering of Loyalist Americans is down 37 percent over last year.

Tarring and feathering is a physical punishment, used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge.

Can we afford tarring and feathering instead?

By the time of that tarring and feathering, 100 people had died in Northern Ireland's violent conflict.

Therefore, it is difficult to know, in any particular instance, the precise characteristics of the materials used in tarring and feathering.

Historically, petroleum tar was not used in the application of tarring and feathering for a variety of reasons.

They were alienated when the Patriots resorted to violence, such as burning houses and tarring and feathering.

The area once had the nickname Tar Corners, after an incident where a dispute between neighbors led to a tarring and feathering.

"Particularly obnoxious vermin" were to be dealt with by select tarring and feathering and horse whipping.

The victim was often carried through town in this predicament, often in conjunction with the punishment of tarring and feathering.

Many of these families were alienated by the extreme violence, including the use of tarring and feathering, which characterized the behavior of the Patriots.

Tarring and feathering (punishment)

Uncomfortable as it is to watch this public tarring and feathering, it is important to remember whose fault it is.

Tarring and feathering was often presented in literature humorously as a punishment inflicting public humiliation and discomfort, but not serious injury.

He was probably the last person in New England to be subjected to the traditional mob-led humiliations of tarring and feathering and riding the rail.

In August 2007, loyalist groups in Northern Ireland were linked to the tarring and feathering of an individual accused of drug-dealing.

'They both belong to the National Front and they both were in that tarring and feathering riot down Deptford High Street.