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Corporal punishment (caning) for criminal punishment

Submitted on Tuesday 9th August 2011

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Corporal punishment (caning) for criminal punishment

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Following the horrific rioting we have observed in our country, it seems that those responsible are not deterred by existing forms of punishment.
Introducing caning for crimes such as rioting, vandalism, burglary etc would go a long way to making would be criminals think twice. The law of Singapore employs such a system to great effect and I would propose we introduce the same system here.


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