Should the real villains get a right old flogging?

EDWIN Cussen (Irish Examiner letters, March 8) recalls his experiences of witnessing public floggings, disfigurement and beheadings in Saudi Arabia.

Surely this could not happen in an American protectorate, armed and largely occupied by the USA. The leader of the Free Nations of the World would never allow that! I am sure he means Iraq where all the bad things happen!

And then he advocates the same type of punishment for wrongdoers here.