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October 16, 2017 4:35 pm at 4:35 pm
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Joseph
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In the United States, some state laws prescribed judicial corporal punishment until 1972. Even as late as 1952 a wife beater in Delaware received 20 lashes after being sentenced to judicial flogging.
Under the laws set by the Continental Congress, Article 51, judicial corporal punishment was limited to a maximum of 39 lashes.
The primary reason they were abolished in the states was because they were “unpleasant to administer”.