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Japanese man sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for rape (apnews.com)

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[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 14 points 3 months ago

The max is 24, and when they overstepped that with 48 strokes once, the recipient had to be hospitalized. I don’t know how it’s so harmful, but it is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore