Judicial corporal punishment

Legal corporal punishment is forbidden in most countries, but it still is a form of legal punishment practised according to the legislations of Brunei,[1] Iran,[1] Libya,[1] the Maldives,[1] Malaysia,[1] Saudi Arabia,[1] Singapore,[1] the United Arab Emirates,[2][1] Yemen,[1] and Qatar,[1] as well as parts of Indonesia (Aceh province)[1] and Nigeria (northern states).

Other former British colonies which currently have judicial caning on their statute books include Barbados,[6] Botswana,[7] Brunei,[8] Swaziland,[9] Tonga,[10] Trinidad and Tobago,[11] and Zimbabwe.

[12] Many Muslim-majority territories, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran,[13] northern Nigeria,[14] Yemen,[15] and Indonesia's Aceh Province,[16] employ judicial whipping, caning and amputations for a range of offences.

[65] American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool.

[68] 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.

[70] The Founders believed whipping and other forms of corporal punishment effectively promoted pro-social and discouraged anti-social behavior.

[citation needed] Judicial corporal punishment was removed from the statute book in Canada in 1972,[75] in India in 1955,[76] in New Zealand in 1941,[77] and in Australia at various times in the 20th century according to state.

[82] Other countries that were neither former British territories nor Islamic states that have used JCP in the more distant past include China,[83] Germany,[84] South Korea,[85] Sweden[86] and Vietnam.