[A strike]

Are you saying you’re good with a 50 cane lashing for a 5’5” 145 lb. as well as for a 6’2” 220 lb. ?

[hanamizu]

“Are you saying you’re good with a 50 cane lashing for a 5’5” 145 lb. as well as for a 6’2” 220 lb. ?”

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Everything I’ve read about caning is that it is incredibly painful. I don’t believe anyone gets 50 strokes at the same time. It is very strictly controlled and there is a medical person supervising.

All that said, strokes of a cane might be a more merciful sentence that a long time imprisoned (I realize this guy got 20 years + the caning). Instead of sending a criminal of a less than capital crime to years in prison, wouldn’t an hour of intense pain and a week or month of recovery be more merciful and for that matter more likely to reduce recidivism?

I used to work with juvenile criminals and they really didn’t like getting hurt. They certainly didn’t mind inflicting pain on others, but for themselves, they objected strenuously.

I know that corporal punishment is no longer part of western criminal punishment, but I don’t think imprisonment is much of an improvement.