Among them, Singapore, which is famous for judicial flogging, is the most serious. This penalty only applies to male criminals under 50 who are healthy and have violated the laws of Singapore, covering a wide range of illegal acts.
At the same time, flogging is also a legal punishment for male misconduct by the Singapore Army (Armed Forces of the Republic of Singapore), which is implemented in military detention camps in Singapore. In addition, flogging is also a punishment and disciplinary measure in reformatory or prison.
In many schools in Singapore, boys and teenagers with serious bad behavior will also be whipped, but the degree is relatively light.
Many parents also use rattan (much smaller than the whip used in judicial flogging) or other tools to punish their children. Corporal punishment of children is not prohibited by Singapore law.
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Whipping is terrible.
Before the execution, the whip will be soaked in clear water overnight to make it fully absorb water and enhance its flexibility, and then wiped with disinfectant. According to the prison authorities, this is because the dry whip may break during the execution. Once it breaks, the wooden thorns on the rattan will penetrate into the human flesh.
The execution part of flogging is the bare buttocks of the criminal. When accepting the punishment, the criminal was naked, and was firmly tied to the flogging rack by a prison guard with a strong pimp in a bent posture, with his body bent from his crotch and his hips tilted.
Prisoners should have a comprehensive physical examination before flogging. People with diseases such as high blood pressure or heart disease can be exempted from flogging, but in fact, few people are exempted from flogging because of illness, with an average of only six people per year. ?
Many witnesses talked about the seriousness of flogging:
"The executioners tried their best to whip, and the skin on the prisoner's ass was cracked. First there was a white mark, and then blood gushed out, "said an eyewitness. "The fourth whip, I saw the blood came out. It is heartbreaking to see that the prisoner is limping on the scaffold. " ?
A prisoner named Shen described:
"The first whip came down ... unbelievable pain, and I'm going to get five lashes, and I only have painless hair all over my body. I didn't expect it to hurt more, but the second whip hurt more. I really felt that I was going to be killed. By the third whip, my body was a mass of meat that felt pain. " ?
The prisoner's wound will take several weeks to heal. My ass is "twice as swollen as usual" and I can't sit, lie or walk normally. You can't wear pants to hide your shame for about ten days. Even after the injury, the whip marks will accompany him for life. ?
However, Singaporean society has no sympathy for the flogged prisoners. A scholar from the National University of Singapore defended flogging like this: "Most Singaporeans support flogging. The purpose of whipping is to cause pain, so the safest place to perform is the ass. The result of flogging is to leave a lifelong whip mark on their buttocks, which just achieves the purpose of education and reminds them that they can no longer commit crimes. "