Was whipping, public or private, EVER written in U.S. law?
In the United States judicial flogging was last used in 1952 in Delaware when a wife beater got 20 lashes. In Delaware, the criminal code permitted floggings to occur until 1972. One of the major objections to judicial corporal punishment in the United States was that it was unpleasant to administer.....Wikipedia “Judicial corporal punishment”