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...property might be common ways for restless American teenagers to rid themselves of excess energy, it's no laughing matter in Singapore. Michael Fay has been sentenced by the Singapore courts to four months in prison, a $2,300 fine, and six lashes with a half-inch-thick rattan cane...
...caning proposed is no mere slap on the buttocks. Prisoners are tied down to a wooden trestle and whipped by martial arts experts. The skin breaks with the first stroke of the cane, and within seconds, prisoners usually go into shock from the intense pain. Physical scars always remain...
...Singapore an American teenager who pleaded guilty to vandalizing cars and was fined and sentenced to six strokes of a split-bamboo cane and four months in prison, lost his appeal for clemency. President Clinton has urged Singapore to reconsider the penalty...
...Singaporean judge sentenced an 18-year-old American student at a Singapore high school to be beaten with a rattan cane, spend four months in jail and pay a $2,230 fine -- all for spraypainting cars and other acts of vandalism...
...university chapter was investigated in 1991 by the national office when rumors emerged that the chapter was hazing pledges--a practice forbidden by the national organization. The same chapter was suspended in 1988 when a pledge was knocked unconscious with a cane...