[agere_contra]

I'm not going to disagree with Morales here.

How many criminals could have been turned from a life of crime by the short-lived humiliation and pain of the lash? The trouble with many modern penal systems are that they are comfortable, and make it easy for criminals to avoid reality. Comfortable criminals do not reform.

I am way past caring about the "barbaric" nature of corporal punishment. Let Morales use the whip: let's watch and see if it works.

[3AngelaD]

Couldn't they just put women's panties on their heads and call it a day?

[Tokra]

I'm not going to disagree with Morales here. How many criminals could have been turned from a life of crime by the short-lived humiliation and pain of the lash? The trouble with many modern penal systems are that they are comfortable, and make it easy for criminals to avoid reality. Comfortable criminals do not reform. I am way past caring about the "barbaric" nature of corporal punishment. Let Morales use the whip: let's watch and see if it works.

I have always felt that a whipping in a public square would be the best punishment for certain crimes - like naming your child "Quaaneesha J'amahl".

[Howard Jarvis Admirer]

I think you're right - it will do more to quickly correct criminals than sitting in a cell watching TV for a year.

BTW, I believe that last whipping performed by a state government was in 1946 in Delaware. Apparently the state law prescribed flogging as a punishment for wife beating. FYI