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Until recently in Scotland a criminal could be 'birched' (flogged) personaly this is something I'd like to see returned to the UK and don't see why it wouldn't be a good idea in the US either. With prisons filling up wouldn't it make good sense for minor public order offences to be able to be flogged as a option to petty custodial sentances? What do you think?
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Until recently in Scotland a criminal could be 'birched' (flogged) personaly this is something I'd like to see returned to the UK and don't see why it wouldn't be a good idea in the US either. With prisons filling up wouldn't it make good sense for minor public order offences to be able to be flogged as a option to petty custodial sentances? What do you think?



How about cutting off their hands and other body parts, like in Saudi?
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I considered that but then they'd just end up being a burden on our already malused social welfare system. No, I'm for flogging them.
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Would be pretty expensive as we'd have to patch em up afterwards on the NHS.

What about forced labour? We could have them patching roads, tilling fields by hand, mowing verges with hand powered mowers. Hell we could make em help run a decent public transport system.

Any more nonsense and it's off to a prison ship with them.

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No seriously Gordy, flogg the little scrots. Somthing has to be done about all the binge drinking violent responsibilty shirking arseholes. Flogg them!
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I don't see a problem with it for some of the "minor" crimes.

I am not sure if they still do it - but when I was younger in Zimbabwe the police were allowed to "cane" offenders for certain minor crimes. The punishment was issued by a judge (number of strikes etc) and from memory it was a fibreglass rod and they laid a salt laden blanket across your bare arse... (my older brother was the recipient due to "teenage" pranks) - no prison problem was solved and no criminal record either. He soon got over the pain and didn't need hospital treatment to patch him up.
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Until recently in Scotland a criminal could be 'birched' (flogged) personaly this is something I'd like to see returned to the UK and don't see why it wouldn't be a good idea in the US either.



How about cutting off their hands and other body parts, like in Saudi?




Absolutely yes! - the death penalty - which is sort-of the maximal
possible intrusion into the physical integrity of a criminal as a punishment - has wide acceptance.

It would be sheer hypocracy not to accept the lesser such
punishments as well.

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Yeah - it's the kicking and struggling that brings the crowds in.



I thought the "quartering" was the real crowd pleaser.



Hmmmm....people have talked about burning at the stake as misogynist, but from what I just read about quartering it seems that that punishment was considered too severe for women, so women were burned at the stake instead. I'm not sure that we fared much better though....

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I remember coming home from work to find my brand new (and first ever NEW) car covered with eggs and paint. I think the punks that did that should have been publicly flogged. And I remember the American kid in Thailand who got caught vandalizing public property, (I think that's what he did) and he got caned. Oh the public outcry! But the freakin' brat got what he deserved.

I think judges ought to be allowed some creative leeway when it comes to sentencing for the less violent offenses, where putting someone in prison may not be appropriate, and a fine or probation will have little impact. I believe in letting the punishment fit the crime. Like making someone convicted of drunk driving (first offense) work in a burn unit, or clean out bed pans at a rehab center. Or making a slum lord actually live in one of his tenements. Or publicly spanking a punk who vandalized a car! But, it will never happen!

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Yeah - it's the kicking and struggling that brings the crowds in.



I thought the "quartering" was the real crowd pleaser.



Hmmmm....people have talked about burning at the stake as misogynist, but from what I just read about quartering it seems that that punishment was considered too severe for women, so women were burned at the stake instead. I'm not sure that we fared much better though....

linz



Part of it involved cutting off parts that women don't have, so maybe they weren't just being nice to women.:(
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What about forced labour? We could have them patching roads, tilling fields by hand, mowing verges with hand powered mowers. Hell we could make em help run a decent public transport system.



What do you do with the people whose jobs were taken by convicts? It's a good idea until you start to really think about the consequences.

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