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corporal punishment so theatrical it became Singapore's most efficient deterrent and Britain's most awkward export.
means The act of striking someone with a cane, traditionally as a disciplinary or judicial punishment delivered across the back, hands, or buttocks.
from From "cane," the slender, jointed stem of bamboo, reeds, and sugar plants — a word that wound its way into English through Old French "canne" and Latin "canna," themselves borrowed from Greek "kanna," likely with deeper roots in a Semitic source (compare Hebrew "qaneh," reed). The plant's natural rigidity made it an obvious tool, and by the time English schoolmasters and colonial courts took it up, "caning" named the punishment as readily as the reed named the plant — the same word for the thing that grows and the thing that stings.
- still legal
- Singapore canes for vandalism, theft, and overstaying visas
- michael fay
- 1994 caning of US teen sparked diplomatic showdown
- medical limit
- a doctor stops the session if skin breaks badly
- rattan weapon
- soaked cane splits skin at over 100 mph
- british schools
- banned in UK state schools only in 1986
singapore judicial caning — singapore's courts sentence defendants to strokes with a rattan cane; michael p. fay received 6 strokes in 1994
british boarding school caning — eton college and other uk schools used caning as punishment; abolished in state schools in 1986, private schools in 1998
malawi corporal punishment — malawi permits judicial caning; used in courts and prisons as of recent years