Capital punishment was one of the classical Five Punishments of China's dynastic period. These privileges even extended to corporal punishments. Flogging and stoning are legal punishments in the UAE. Violation of the code may invite severe punishments and penalties. Mithridates took revenge and inflicted terrible punishments. The officers retaliated, subjecting him to beatings and other punishments. Legalism advocated a highly authoritarian government based on draconian punishments and laws. The Saudi courts impose a number of severe physical punishments. Consequences consist of rewards or punishments. Both women and men were subject to the punishments of violence and humiliating abuse. Most were subjected to lesser punishments or penances. Other Buddhist texts make no mention of legal punishments for adultery. It was one of the most severe punishments ever imposed on a professional sports owner. It also prohibits retroactive increases of criminal punishments. Early Han punishments of torturous mutilation were borrowed from Qin law.