Whoa!
To implement this modern day would really send a strong message to judges.
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https://youtu.be/tH8meqvjbZI
The Judge Who Was Flayed Alive
He was meant to uphold justice — instead, he became its most gruesome example. In one of the most horrifying punishments ever recorded, a royal judge in ancient Persia was skinned alive by order of the king. But what happened next was even more disturbing: his own son was forced to sit on a throne draped in his father’s flesh. This is not legend. This is history. A chilling story of betrayal, power, and the terrifying lengths rulers once went to in order to make an example. Brace yourself — this is justice, carved into the flesh.
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historical account of a Persian king flaying a corrupt judge and using his skin to cover the judge's chair is accurate, but it was Cambyses II, not Cyrus the Great, who ordered the punishment.
This historical story, recorded by the Greek historian Herodotus, unfolded as follows:
The judge: The corrupt judge was named Sisamnes.
The crime: During the reign of Cambyses II, Sisamnes took a bribe to influence a court verdict.
The punishment: After discovering Sisamnes's corruption, King Cambyses had him arrested and flayed alive.
The morbid reminder: The king then appointed Otanes, the flayed judge's son, to take his father's place on the court. To serve as a constant reminder of the consequences of corruption, Cambyses had the bench on which Otanes would preside upholstered with his father's skin.
This gruesome story was later memorialized in Gerard David's 15th-century diptych painting, The Judgment of Cambyses. The artwork, which depicts the flaying, was commissioned by the city hall of Bruges as a warning to magistrates against corruption.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisamnes
Sisamnes was, according to Herodotus's Histories, book 5, chapter 25, a corrupt royal judge active in the Persian empire during the reign of Cambyses II of Persia. When Cambyses learned that Sisamnes had accepted a bribe to influence a verdict, he had him promptly arrested and sentenced him to be flayed alive. He had the skin of the flayed Sisamnes cut into leather strips. Cambyses then appointed Otanes, the son of the condemned Sisamnes, as his father's judicial successor. In order to remind Otanes what happens to corrupt judges and not forget the importance of judicial integrity, Cambyses ordered that the new judge's chair be draped in the leather strips made from the skin of the flayed Sisamnes.[1] Otanes later became a satrap in Ionia.[2] Cambyses warned Otanes to continually keep in mind the source of the leather of the chair upon which he would be seated to deliberate and deliver his judgment.[3] The story was also referred to by the first century Latin author Valerius Maximus in his Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX (The nine books of memorable deeds and sayings).[4] Whereas in Herodotus' version Sisamnes' skin is cut into strips, Maximus has the skin stretched across the chair.[5]