Judicial corporal punishment

File:Whipping of an incarcerated delinquent, Germany 17th century.jpg martyr Ursula, Maastricht, 1570; engraving by Jan Luyken from Martyrs Mirror{{cite web | url=https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Ursel_(d._1570) | title=Ursel (d. 1570) | work=GAMEO | date=10 January 2018 | access-date=16 June 2019}}]]

Singapore's use of caning as a form of judicial corporal punishment became much discussed around the world in 1994{{cite news |url=https://www.corpun.com/sgju9404.htm#6392 |title=What US columnists say about Fay's caning |date=8 April 1994 |newspaper=The Straits Times |location=Singapore |access-date=24 September 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100920031803/http://corpun.com/sgju9404.htm#6392 |archive-date=20 September 2010 }} when a United States citizen, Michael Fay, was caned for vandalism.{{cite news |url= https://www.corpun.com/sgju9403.htm#4910 |title=Ohio Youth to be Flogged in Singapore |first=Charles P. |last=Wallis |date=4 March 1994 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=24 September 2010}} Two of Singapore's neighbouring countries, Malaysia and Brunei, also use judicial caning.

Other former British colonies which currently have judicial caning on their statute books include Barbados,{{cite news |url=https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/barbados/ |title=Barbados: Current legality of corporal punishment |date=February 2009 |publisher=GITEACPOC |access-date=24 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916073655/https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/barbados/ |archive-date=16 September 2020 }} Botswana,{{cite news |url=https://www.corpun.com/bwj00605.htm#18334 |title=A village choking under crime |first=Ndlovu |last=Nomsa |date=11 May 2006 |newspaper=Mmegi |location= Gaborone |access-date= 24 September 2010}} Brunei,{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41636.htm |title=Brunei Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2004 |publisher=Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State |work=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices }} Swaziland,[http://www.amnestyusa.org/annualreport.php?id=ar&yr=2007&c=SWZ Report 2007 for Swaziland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624193143/http://www.amnestyusa.org/annualreport.php?id=ar&yr=2007&c=SWZ |date=24 June 2009 }}, Amnesty USA. Tonga,{{cite web|url=http://www.paclii.org/to/legis/consol_act/co136/|title=Laws of Tonga, Chapter 18.|access-date=16 December 2016}} Trinidad and Tobago,{{cite news |last=Swamber |first=Keino |url= https://corpun.com/ttj00606.htm#19099 |title=Twelve strokes for sex with girl, 12 |newspaper= Trinidad Express |location= Port of Spain |date=1 June 2006 }} and Zimbabwe.{{cite news |url= https://corpun.com/zwj00605.htm#19109 |title=Boy to receive 2 cane strokes |newspaper= Sunday Mail |location= Harare |date=21 May 2006 }}

Many Muslim-majority territories, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, northern Nigeria, Yemen,[http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/yemen.html Yemen State Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120184512/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/yemen.html |date=20 November 2008 }}, GITEACPOC, June 2007. and Indonesia's Aceh Province,{{Cite news |title=Indonesia's Aceh to Take Caning Indoors after backlash |work=The Associated Press |date=13 April 2018 |url= https://apnews.com/article/ed543c366f744153bc8cf386a94d1e88 |access-date=21 August 2023}} employ judicial whipping, caning and amputations for a range of offences.

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A list of countries that use lawful, official judicial corporal punishment today is as follows:

1. {{flag|Afghanistan}}.{{cite news |agency= Reuters |url= https://www.corpun.com/afju9704.htm |title= Afghan charity workers receive lashing, set free |newspaper= Jakarta Post |date=8 April 1997}}{{cite news |url= http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0221/p06s02-wogn.html |title= Reporters on the Job: Sharia but No Sword |newspaper= Christian Science Monitor |location= Boston |date=21 February 2006 }}{{Cite news |date=21 October 2023 |title=Journalist Mortaza Behboudi back in France after 284 days in Taliban jails |work=Mediapart |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/international/211023/journalist-mortaza-behboudi-back-france-after-284-days-taliban-jails |url-status=live |access-date=22 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021171222/https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/international/211023/journalist-mortaza-behboudi-back-france-after-284-days-taliban-jails |archive-date=21 October 2023}} See Judicial corporal punishment in Afghanistan
2. {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}} (flogging)[http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/antigua.html Antigua State Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725032733/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/antigua.html|date=25 July 2008}}, GITEACPOC, February 2009.{{cite news |last=Weston |first=Tahna |date=15 February 2007 |title=Court orders 12 lashes for juvenile offenders |url=https://www.corpun.com/agj00702.htm |newspaper=Antigua Sun}}
3. {{flag|Bahamas}} (men – cat on bare back; boys – cane on bare buttocks; in private)[http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/statutes/statute_CHAPTER_101.html Criminal Law (Measures) Act 1991] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602134546/http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/Statutes/statute_CHAPTER_101.html |date= 2 June 2009 }}, The Bahamas Laws On-line.[https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78878.htm Bahamas Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2006], US Department of State.
4. {{flag|Botswana}} (males aged 14 to 40 – cane on bare buttocks; in private)[http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/botswana.html Botswana State Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003223020/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/botswana.html |date= 3 October 2008 }}, GITEACPOC, February 2008.[https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41589.htm Botswana Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2004], US Department of State.
5. {{flag|Brunei}} (men and boys – cane on bare buttocks; in private){{cite news |last1=Mahathir |first1=Helena M. |last2=Kon |first2=James |url= https://www.corpun.com/bnj00505.htm#15776 |title= Anti-drugs campaign held in Tutong |newspaper= Borneo Bulletin |location= Bandar Seri Begawan |date=19 May 2005 }}[http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/brunei.html Brunei State Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527023802/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/brunei.html |date=27 May 2010 }}, GITEACPOC, February 2009. See Caning in Brunei.
6. {{flag|Dominica}} (boys under 16 – details unclear)[http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/dominica.html Dominica State Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003231948/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/dominica.html |date= 3 October 2008 }}, GITEACPOC, February 2009.
7. {{flag|Ecuador}} (men and women – traditional indigenous justice){{cite web |url=http://www.llacta.org/notic/2007/not0621b.htm |title=El ejercicio de la administración de justicia indígena en el Ecuador |author=Dra. Mariana Yumbay |date=21 June 2007 |publisher=Llacta |access-date=24 September 2010|language=es}}
8. {{flag|Indonesia}}, Aceh Special Region only (men and women – cane on clothed back; details unclear){{Cite news |title=Indonesia's Aceh to Take Caning Indoors after backlash |work=The Associated Press |date=13 April 2018 |url= https://apnews.com/article/ed543c366f744153bc8cf386a94d1e88 |access-date=21 August 2023}}
9. {{flag|Iran}} (men, women, boys, girls – whip or strap, no target specified; public or private);[https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27927.htm Iran Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2004], US Department of State. "eye for an eye" punishments are also legal.{{Cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/05/eye-for-an-eye-iran-blinds-man-who-carried-out-acid-attack |title=Eye for an eye: Iran blinds acid attacker |last=Dehghan |first=Saeed Kamali |date=5 March 2015 |work=The Guardian |location= London |access-date=23 January 2020}}
10. {{flag|Lesotho}} (men and boys – details unclear)[http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/lesotho.html Lesotho State Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527032219/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/lesotho.html |date=27 May 2010 }}, GITEACPOC, June 2007.
11. {{flag|Malaysia}} (Criminal law: men – cane on bare buttocks; in private, male juveniles - cane on clothed buttocks with a light cane; in courtroom).[https://www.corpun.com/myjur4.htm Pudu Prison exhibition], Kuala Lumpur, 1998. See Caning in Malaysia. *(Sharia law, Muslims only: men and women – cane on clothed back; in private){{cite news |last=Damis |first=Aniza |url= https://www.corpun.com/myj00506.htm#16091 |title=The pain is in the shame |newspaper=New Straits Times |location= Kuala Lumpur |date=27 June 2005}}[https://corpun.com/vidmyj01.htm "Religious corporal punishment in Malaysia"], World Corporal Punishment Research.
12. {{flag|Maldives}} (men and women – details unclear){{cite news |last=Evans |first=

Judith |url= https://www.corpun.com/mvj00806.htm#20256 |title= Lashings Punishment Resumes |newspaper= Minivan News |location= Malé |date= 1 June 2008 }}

1. {{flag|Nigeria}} (men, women – cane on clothed buttocks or whip on bare back; in public or private.){{cite news |last=Finkel |first= David |author-link= David Finkel |url= https://www.corpun.com/ngj00211.htm#10088 |title=Crime and Holy Punishment: In Divided Nigeria, Search for Justice Leads Many to Embrace Islamic Code |newspaper= The Washington Post |date=24 November 2002 }}Hamid, Ruhi. [https://www.corpun.com/ngj00710.htm#19755 "Video clips from 'Inside a Sharia Court'"], This World, BBC Two, London, 1 October 2007.{{cite web |url= http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/nigeria.html |title= Nigeria State Report |publisher= GITEACPOC |date= April 2014 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141223141112/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/nigeria.html |archive-date= 23 December 2014 }}{{cite web |url= https://www.corpun.com/rules2.htm#ngj |title=Nigeria: Judicial CP |publisher= World Corporal Punishment Research |date= November 2014}}
2. {{flag|Pakistan}} (men and boys – cane or strap on clothed buttocks; public or private)[https://www.corpun.com/vidju5.htm "Pakistan: Judicial corporal punishment by flogging"]. World Corporal Punishment Research. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
3. {{flag|Qatar}} (men and women – details unclear; in private){{cite web |url= http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/qatar.html |title=Qatar State Report |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081003081824/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/qatar.html |archive-date=3 October 2008 |publisher= GITEACPOC}}
4. {{flag|Saudi Arabia}}: Saudi Arabia has corporal punishment, including forced amputations and flogging, including for child offenders.{{Cite web |title=Saudi Arabia {{!}} Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children |date=3 November 2017 |url=https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/saudi-arabia/ |access-date=2024-01-07 |language=en-GB}}
5. {{flag|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} (boys and men – details unclear)[http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/stkitts.html St Kitts & Nevis State Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820160946/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/stkitts.html |date=20 August 2008 }}, GITEACPOC, February 2009.{{cite news |last=Smithen |first=Corliss |url= https://www.corpun.com/knj00602.htm#17394 |title= Convicted men get strokes, jail sentence |newspaper=Sun St Kitts |location= Basseterre |date=21 February 2006 }}
6. {{flag|Sierra Leone}} (boys only – cane or birch on bare buttocks)[http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/sierra-leone.html Sierra Leone State Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527034033/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/sierra-leone.html |date=27 May 2010 }}, GITEACPOC, June 2008.
7. {{flag|Singapore}} (men and boys – cane on bare buttocks; in private). See Caning in Singapore.
8. {{flag|Somalia}} (men and women – cane on clothed buttocks)[https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78757.htm Somalia Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2006], US Department of State.
9. {{flag|Swaziland}} (boys only – cane on bare buttocks)
10. {{flag|Tanzania}} (men and boys – cane on bare buttocks; in private){{cite web |url=http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/un-rep-tanzania.html |title=United Republic of Tanzania: Current legality of corporal punishment |date=March 2010 |publisher=GITEACPOC |access-date=24 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909003111/http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/un-rep-tanzania.html |archive-date=9 September 2010}}
11. {{flag|Tonga}} (men – cat on bare buttocks; boys – birch or cat on bare buttocks)
12. {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} (men only – cat on bare back or birch on bare buttocks; in private){{cite news |last=Heeralal |first= Darryl |url= https://www.corpun.com/ttj00506.htm |title= Jail, strokes for 'dirty old man' |newspaper= Trinidad Express |location=Port of Spain |date=4 June 2005 }}
13. {{flag|Tuvalu}} (details unclear)[https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8381.htm Tuvalu Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2001], US Department of State.
14. {{flag|United Arab Emirates}} – Legal punishments in the United Arab Emirates include forced amputations and flogging;{{cite web |title=United Arab Emirates – Country Reports on Human Rights Practices |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/nea/824.htm |access-date=27 October 2015 |quote=In February an Indonesian woman convicted of adultery by the Shari'a court in the Emirate of Fujairah, was sentenced to death by stoning after she purportedly insisted on such punishment. The sentence was commuted on appeal to 1 year in prison, followed by deportation. In June 1998, the Shari'a court in Fujairah sentenced three Omani nationals convicted of robbery to have their right hands amputated. The Fujairah prosecutor's office instead commuted the sentence to a term of imprisonment.}}{{Cite web |date=30 December 2004 |title=Burglar's hand to be amputated |url=https://gulfnews.com/uae/crime/burglars-hand-to-be-amputated-1.343257 |access-date=2021-11-03 |website=gulfnews.com |language=en}}{{cite news |author= Awad Mustafa |url= https://www.corpun.com/aej00704.htm#19126 |title=Out With The Lash |newspaper= Xpress |location=Dubai |date=25 April 2007 }} "eye for an eye" punishments are also legal.
15. {{flag|Yemen}} (details unclear)

The above list does not include countries where a "blind eye" is sometimes turned to unofficial JCP by local tribes, authorities, etc. including Bangladesh{{cite web |url= https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61705.htm |title=2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Bangladesh |date=8 March 2006 |publisher=U.S. Department of State }} and Colombia.{{cite web |url=http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/colombia.html#Lawfulness |title=Colombia – Lawfulness of corporal punishment |date= June 2007 |publisher= GITEACPOC |access-date=24 September 2010}}

The Ancient Egyptians practised rhinectomy, punishing some offenders by cutting off their noses. Such criminals were often exiled to locations in Sinai, such as Tjaru and Rhinocorura.

In 1854, all forms of JCP were abolished in the Netherlands with the exception of whipping. Whipping was later abolished in 1870.

In the Wetboek van Strafrecht, article 9, this kind of punishment is not listed as primary or secondary punishment. Mainly because of human rights and/or human dignity, corporal punishment has been abolished.

The Constitutional Court decided in 1995 in the case of S v Williams and Others that caning of juveniles was unconstitutional. Although the ruling in S v Williams was limited to the corporal punishment of males under the age of 21, Justice Langa mentioned in dicta that there was a consensus that corporal punishment of adults was also unconstitutional.{{cite SAFLII |litigants=S v Williams and Others |court=ZACC |year=1995 |num=6 |pinpoint=para. 10 |parallelcite=1995 (3) SA 632, 1995 (7) BCLR 861 |date=9 June 1995 |courtname=auto}}

The Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997 abolished judicial corporal punishment.{{cite web |url=http://www.corpun.com/jcpza12.htm |title=Section 13: The abolition of JCP |work=Judicial Corporal Punishment in South Africa |publisher=World Corporal Punishment Research |year=2005 |access-date=1 November 2011}}{{Cite web|url=http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/assets/articles/attachments/03115_abolofcorppunact33.pdf|title=Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997.|access-date=12 April 2009|archive-date=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007032021/http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/assets/articles/attachments/03115_abolofcorppunact33.pdf|url-status=dead}}

In the United Kingdom, judicial corporal punishment generally was abolished in 1948;{{cite news |url= http://www.corpun.com/ukju4712.htm#8283 |title= Power to order flogging: Abolition approved in Committee |newspaper=The Times |location= London |date= 12 December 1947 }} however, it persisted in prisons as a punishment for prisoners committing serious assaults on prison staff (ordered by visiting justices) until it was abolished by section 65 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967.{{Cite legislation UK |type=act |year=1967 |chapter=80 |act=Criminal Justice Act 1967 |section=65 |date=27 July 1967 |accessdate=6 February 2021}} The last ever prison flogging happened in 1962.{{cite web |url= http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/criminal-justice-policy.htm |title=Criminal justice policy |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=16 December 2016}}{{cite web |url= http://www.corpun.com/counukj.htm |title=Judicial and prison flogging and whipping in Britain |publisher=World Corporal Punishment Research |access-date=16 December 2016}}

The last birching sentence in Jersey was carried out in 1966. Birching was abandoned as a policy in 1969 but lingered on the statute books. Obsolete references to corporal punishment were removed from remaining statutes by the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) (Jersey) Law 2007.{{cite web |title=Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) (Jersey) Law 2007 |url=https://www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce%5Chtm%5CLawFiles%5C2007%2FL-34-2007.htm |access-date=8 January 2013 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232434/http://www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce%5Chtm%5CLawFiles%5C2007/L-34-2007.htm |url-status=dead }}

The last birching sentence in Guernsey was carried out in 1968. The Corporal Punishment (Guernsey) Law, 1957 was finally repealed by the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2006.{{cite web |title=Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2006 |url= http://www.guernseylegalresources.gg/article/97883/Criminal-Justice-Miscellaneous-Provisions-Bailiwick-of-Guernsey-Law-2006 |access-date=8 January 2013}}

Judicial birching was abolished in the Isle of Man in 1993 following the 1978 judgment in Tyrer v. UK by the European Court of Human Rights.{{cite news |title=Isle of Man to scrap birch at a stroke |newspaper=The Guardian |location= London |date=6 March 1993}} The last birching had taken place in January 1976; the last caning, of a 13-year-old boy convicted of robbing another child of 10p, was the last recorded juvenile case in May 1971.{{cite web |url= https://www.corpun.com/manx.htm |title= Birching in the Isle of Man 1945 to 1976 |website=World Corporal Punishment Research |date=March 2018 |access-date=11 November 2019}}

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American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool.Herbert Arnold Falk, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT – A SOCIAL INTERPRETATION OF ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES, 22–33 (1941). In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable in American and English towns.Falk, id., 31. Starting in 1776, George Washington strongly advocated and utilised judicial corporal punishment in the Continental Army, with due process protection, obtaining in 1776 authority from the Continental Congress to impose 100 lashes, more than the previous limit of 39.Journals of the Continental Congress, Articles of War – 20 September 1776, Section XVIII – Art. 3: "No person shall be sentenced to suffer death, except in the cases expressly mentioned in the foregoing articles; nor shall more than one hundred lashes be inflicted on any offender, at the discretion of a court-martial." Articles of War – 30 June 1775, Art. 51 limited JCP to 39 lashes. EUGENE D. GENOVESE, ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL – THE WORLD THE SLAVES MADE 308 (1974). In his 1778 Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments, Thomas Jefferson provided up to 15 lashes for individuals pretending to witchcraft or prophecy, at the jury's discretion; castration for men guilty of rape, polygamy or sodomy, and a minimum half-inch hole bored in the nose cartilage of women convicted of those sex crimes.{{cite web|first=Thomas |last=Jefferson|author-link=Thomas Jefferson|title= A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments §14 (castration; cartilage), §15 (maiming), §24 (witchcraft) (1778) |url=http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendVIIIs10.html|website=press-pubs.uchicago.edu}} In 1781, Washington requested legal authority from the Continental Congress to impose up to 500 lashes, as there was still a punishment gap between 100 lashes and the death penalty.Geo. Washington to President of Continental Congress, 3 February 1781 available at memory.loc.gov. The Founders believed whipping and other forms of corporal punishment effectively promoted pro-social and discouraged anti-social behavior. Two later presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, advocated judicial corporal punishment as punishment for wife-beating.J.D. Gleissner, "[http://www.academia.edu/download/36274584/Prison_Overcrowding_Cure.doc Prison Overcrowding Cure: Judicial Corporal Punishment of Adults]{{dead link|date=July 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}," Vol. 49, Issue No. 4, The Criminal Law Bulletin, (c) Thomson-Reuters/Westlaw(2013).

In the United States, judicial flogging was last used in 1952 in Delaware when a wife-beater got 20 lashes. In Delaware, the criminal code permitted floggings until 1972.{{cite web |url= http://jnjreid.com/cdb/hannah.html |title= Collecting Delaware Books – Red Hannah – Delaware's Whipping Post |access-date=16 December 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://cecilcounty.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/an-ancient-punishment-the-whipping-post/ |title=An Ancient Punishment – The Whipping Post Last Used in Cecil in 1940 |date=2 August 2008 |access-date=16 December 2016 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914035446/https://cecilcounty.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/an-ancient-punishment-the-whipping-post/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19640303&id=VjwaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YScEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5219,1701473|title=The Milwaukee Journal – Mar 3, 1964|access-date=15 December 2015|archive-date=19 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519233656/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19640303&id=VjwaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YScEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5219,1701473|url-status=dead}} One of the major objections to judicial corporal punishment in the United States was that it was unpleasant to administer.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

Judicial corporal punishment was removed from the statute book in Canada in 1972,[https://www.corpun.com/canada.htm "The Canadian Prison Strap"], World Corporal Punishment Research. in India in 1955,{{Cite web |last=Garg |first=Rachit |date=19 December 2022 |title=Corporal punishment |url= https://blog.ipleaders.in/corporal-punishment/ |access-date=15 August 2023 |website= iPleaders}} in New Zealand in 1941,[https://web.archive.org/web/20010210020748/http://epochnz.virtualave.net/newsletter7_fall_corporal.html "The Fall and Fall of Corporal Punishment"], November 1999 Newsletter, EPOCH New Zealand. and in Australia at various times in the 20th century according to state.[https://www.corpun.com/rules.htm#australia "Australia: Judicial CP"], World Corporal Punishment Research. William John O'Meally was the last person flogged in Australia in Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 1958.

It has been abolished in recent decades in Hong Kong,{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Hedley |url= https://www.corpun.com/hkjur2.htm |title= Patten may appeal for clemency on sentence |newspaper= South China Morning Post |location=Hong Kong |date=22 April 1994 }} Jamaica,{{cite news |url= https://www.corpun.com/jmju9812.htm |title=Jamaican court abolishes flogging |work=CNN |date=18 December 1998 }} Afterwards, in 2000, the UN Human Rights Committee found in case [http://www.wfrt.net/humanrts/undocs/session68/view759.htm Osbourne v. Jamaica] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724130718/http://www.wfrt.net/humanrts/undocs/session68/view759.htm |date=24 July 2011 }}, concerning a whipping conducted in 1997, that corporal punishment constituted 'cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment contrary to article 7 of ICCPR' (Para. 9.1). A similar conclusion was reached in 2002 in case [http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,HRC,CASELAW,JAM,,3f588ef33,0.html Higginson v. Jamaica No. 792/1998] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012113453/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country%2C%2CHRC%2CCASELAW%2CJAM%2C%2C3f588ef33%2C0.html |date=12 October 2012 }}. Kenya,{{cite news |last=Bowry|first=Pravin |url =https://www.corpun.com/kej00309.htm#12057 |title= Changes in criminal law significant |newspaper=Daily Nation |location= Nairobi |date=16 September 2003 }} Sri Lanka,{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} and Zambia.{{cite news |url= https://www.corpun.com/zmj00311.htm#12315 |title= Parliament supports repeal of corporal punishment |agency= Zana (Zambia News Agency) |location= Lusaka |date=13 November 2003 }}

Other countries that were neither former British territories nor Islamic states that have used JCP in the more distant past include China,{{cite news |author=Xing Bao |url= https://www.corpun.com/cnj00310.htm#12181 |title= Citizen Cane |newspaper= Shanghai Star |date=9 October 2003 }} Germany,[https://www.corpun.com/dejur1.htm "Judicial and Prison Flogging in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Germany"], World Corporal Punishment Research. South Korea,[https://www.corpun.com/krjur1.htm "Old photographs of judicial floggings in Korea"]. World Corporal Punishment Research. Retrieved 30 May 2009. Sweden[https://web.archive.org/web/20040202210843/http://vvv.it.kth.se/docs/early_net/ch-2-9.3.html "Penal Code 1809"]. The Early History of Data Networks. Retrieved 30 May 2009. and Vietnam.[http://nguyentl.free.fr/html/photo_loi_fr.htm "La loi de l'époque"]. Les images d'autrefois du Vietnam. Retrieved 30 May 2009.

• Peter Moskos, American criminologist who has advocated judicial flogging
• Police brutality

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