Reply To: Reinstitute corporal punishment as a legal penalty

YY, SCOTUS never ruled that judicial corporal punishment is unconstitutional. Furthermore, the constitution itself specifically and directly allows *enslavement* as a punishment for a crime. Namely, the 13th Amendment reads:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”