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.

Should the real villains get a right old flogging?
Mon, 24 Mar, 2003 - 00:00

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.

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