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

capital punishment, corporal, cruel and unusual punishment, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, instrument of punishment, lance corporal, little corporal, punishment