Whipping Post

At the jury term of 1827 the whipping post was yet in use in Lawrence County, and James Langley and Levi Rush were each sentenced to receive fifty lashes on their bare backs and fined one hundred dollars for stealing a seventy-dollar horse. The lashings were to be inflicted within an hour and the prisoners ordered to be sold to the highest bidder for a term not exceeding three years to pay the fines.

There were no bidders.

The whipping was done in the courtyard at a post prepared for such amusement. These were the last persons punished under that law; cowhides became obsolete.