WILMINGTON, Del. – Delaware was the last state to stop tying people to whipping posts and lashing their bare backs as criminal punishment, so recently that witnessing a beating is still a memory for some.
The post was put on display in 1993, about two decades after Delaware formally removed whippings from its criminal justice laws in 1972. Since then, it has been referenced as an attraction in articles and advertisements about the town's history. Floyd's death set off protests against police brutality and publicly celebrated symbols that are at odds with racial equality. This weekend, Mississippi lawmakers agreed to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state's flag after decades of ebbing and rising protests.Delaware officials removed the statue of Caesar Rodney, famously a signer of the Declaration of Independence and infamously a slaveholder, from its iconic overlook of Rodney Square in downtown Wilmington.
One Saturday, when she was around 10, their trip took them within sight of the old Kent County Jail in Dover, where a crowd had gathered. They approached and peered through a wire mesh fence and saw a man shackled against a post. Most often, custom dictated that a cat-o'-nine tails — a broomstick-like handle with nine 2-foot-long leather thongs — was used to administer the beatings. They were sometimes doled out for what many would consider petty crimes like stealing a chicken and often accompanied a prison sentence.
It states the last whipping in Sussex County occurred in 1903. In reality, the last person to receive the government-sanctioned lash in the southern most county was in 1950, according to archives of the USA TODAY Network's Delaware News Journal.
Before its removal I'd like to see most media figures and their executives given a personal demonstration of exactly how this post works
this is STUPID! how TF we remember history if they remove it!
I TOLD YOU PEOPLE Allman Brothers were next up.
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