What does public caning mean?
Where does that name come from?
Where does that name come from?
catgirltracy
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It is a form of judicial corporal punishment that is legal in many countries. The guilty person is taken to a public place (hence "public") and beaten with a switch/stick (made from bamboo, hence "cane"). The sentence usually specifies the number of lashes the person receives. This punishment made international headlines several years ago when an 18yr.old American living in Singapore was found guilty of vandalizing a car. His sentence was 6 lashes on his bare bottom.
pachl@sbcglobal.net
You may be too young to remember a well publicized case from 1994, in which an American boy in Singapore was given a public caning for vandalizing cars.
In this case, the guy was given six lashes with a cane on his buttocks.
In numerous countries, punishment for crimes in corporal, not incarceration.
MrCool1978
It means being beaten with a Rattan Cane
☼Jims Brain☼
Beat with a long stick in public. A cane as in "bamboo cane"
ValleyViolet
It is a punishment where criminals receive a public and painful beating with a cane.