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Flogging as a criminal punishment

Submitted on Saturday 13th August 2011

Published on Tuesday 16th August 2011

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 16th August 2012

Signatures: 22

Tagged with

British ~ Crime ~ Law ~ Prison ~ Tax

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Flogging as a criminal punishment

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Rather than order prison sentences and reprimands to rioters, thieves or thugs, surely it would be more effective and less costly to the tax payer if the British government introduced A physical punishment enforcement act to legalize caning or flogging from 1 to 20 lashes defendant upon the severity of crime. Pain is an age old method for correcting behavior and acting as a deterrent to committing crime. History shows that it works, and is cost effective for keeping law and order in society.


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