this is pandering to the awful side of human nature!
Giving these sadistic individuals a chance to hurt another person anyway they want is a licence to the worst in human nature. These guys were licensed to hurt another human being in any way they chose, choosing where they inflicted their whipping, face, upper body etc. This seems far from the Quranic injunction that such punishment can only be administered with the Quran held under the upper arm,!! Why did France introduce the Guilletine? Why did Britain introduce scientific hanging? To prevent perverted individuals like this inflicting punishment for pleasure. We can all disapprove antisocial behavior including sexual immorality as a destroyer of social equilibrium but we have in the civilised world a duty surely have moved beyond this!