Corporal punishment is defined as violence inflicted on children by parents, teachers, and others in the name of discipline and it is experienced by a large majority of children in many states worldwide. Some children, including children with disabilities and young children, are particularly likely to experience it. Corporal punishment is harmful to children and could lead to emotional and physical issues. Educationally, corporal punishment has been defined as the infliction of pain by a teacher or other educational official upon the body of a student as a penalty for doing something which has been disapproved by the punisher. Corporal punishments include flogging, beating, branding, mutilation, blinding, and the use of the stock and pillory. In a broad sense, the term also denotes the physical disciplining of children in the schools and at home.
Corporal punishment was certainly present in classical civilizations, being used in Greece, Rome, and Egypt for both judicial and educational discipline. Some states gained a reputation for using such punishments cruelly; Sparta, in particular, used them as part of a disciplinary regime designed to build willpower and physical strength. Corporal punishment has even been a classic method of punishing offenders since ancient civilizations. Its history can be traced back to the Middle Ages until the 19th Century, when it was handed out as a punishment for minor crimes and unlawful acts. Flogging, a type of corporal punishment, where a person is whipped with a rod or whip, was a common practice in the British army and navy, it was abolished from the army and navy as a disciplinary action in 1874. Before the 8th Amendment had passed, many prisoners were victims of corporal punishment. They were whipped and flogged as they were sent to their deaths. The 8th amendment required that all execution be as painless as possible, with this amendment we saw the invention of such things as lethal injection, which