List of deaths by corporal punishment

Corporal punishment is forced pain intended to change a person's behaviour or to punish them.

The following are people who have died due to corporal punishment:

* Arpit Kavadia was a class 12 student at the Alok Sansthana School in Udaipur,India. He was severely beaten up by Indra Samar, a Sanskrit teacher of the school on 26th July, 2007 for having kept his legs on a table. He succumbed to his injuries and died on 2nd August, 2007 in General Hospital, Udaipur. The police registered a case against Indra Samar under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. [ [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/208305.html IndianExpress.com :: ] ] [ [http://mynation.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/teacher-beats-19-year-old-boy-to-death/ Teacher beats 19-year-old boy to death « Save Indian Society Foundation - News ] ] [ [http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/03/stories/2007090353170300.htm The Hindu : New Delhi News : Teachers’ Day ] ]

* Ramu Abhinav, was a 16 year old class 10 student at Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School,in Chennai, India. He had committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his room on 12th July,2003 because he was stripped and severely beaten up by his mathematics teacher Kannappan in full view of his class mates. In his suicide note he said that "he was afraid of going to school and that he would do anything to avoid going to school". The teacher Kannappan was later arrested by the police. [ [http://www.corpun.com/ins00306.htm School corporal punishment, India, June 2003 - CORPUN ARCHIVE ins00306 ] ] [ [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051009/spectrum/main1.htm The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum ] ] [ [http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1074884 DNA - India - Children heave a sigh of relief in Tamil Nadu - Daily News & Analysis ] ] [ [http://www.infochangeindia.org/archives1.jsp?secno=4&monthname=September&year=2003&detail=T InfoChange India News & Features development news India Archives ] ]

* Jagroop Singh was a 15 year old class 10 student at the Senior Secondary School(Pakhowal) in Ludhiana,Punjab,India. He was severely beaten up by his teacher Jatinder Kaur on 12th July,2002.He later succumbed to his injuries and died. The police had registered an FIR and booked the teacher Jatinder Kaur for murder.The teacher was later arrested on 20th July,2002. The teacher Jatinder Kaur was later granted bail and transferred to Lehal Secondary School in Khanna, Punjab, India. The case is still pending in Indian Courts. [ [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031029/edit.htm#7 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Opinions ] ] [ [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020714/ldh1.htm#4 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Ludhiana Stories ] ] [ [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020710/ldh1.htm The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Ludhiana Stories ] ] [ [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/15801590.cms Ludhiana boy beaten up by teacher dies-Chandigarh-Cities-The Times of India ] ]

* A mother of a girl was arrested by the police for having beaten and hanged her 12 year old daughter in a village in Jodhpur,India. The girl had reportedly demanded to go to school. Her mother had gotten enraged at this and beat her with a rolling pin. When she saw that her daughter had become unconscious, she hanged her from the ceiling with a rope to make it appear like a suicide. [ [http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/indian-mum-kills-daughter-for-wanting-school/2007/08/14/1186857493691.html Indian mum kills daughter for wanting school - World - smh.com.au ] ]

* Private Frederick John White, who was flogged to death at Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow in 1847.Fact|date=September 2008

* Martin Tabert, was a white 21-year old from North Dakota who, in 1921, decided to see the world. Accused of hopping a freight train in Leon County, Florida, and charged with vagrancy, he was ordered to pay $25 or spend three months at hard labor. Tabert immediately wired his family who sent the $25 plus an additional $25 so he could return home. But through mishandling, the Leon County court never received the money. Although prisoners sentenced to a year or more of labor were usually sent to the convict camps, a guard whisked Tabert away to the tiny community of Clara in Dixie County, 60 miles south of Tallahassee. He was assigned to the foreign-run Putnam Lumber Co. At this camp, Tabert labored in the swamps cutting and clearing timber. He soon suffered from fevers, headaches and oozing sores. When he could no longer remain in the woods, Walter Higginbotham, the whipping boss, propped him up on his swollen feet and flogged him about 50 times with a 5-foot leather strap because Tabert failed to do his day's work. Tabert begged for mercy, but he was so weak he could hardly talk. While he lay in his bunk unconscious, the company doctor examined him and left quinine, for what he diagnosed as "pernicious malaria." But Tabert died a little after 8 p.m. that night. The Panama City Pilot detailed his story and death on Feb. 2, 1922, headlining the article as "Florida's disgrace." Tabert's family brought the death of their son to the attention of those in charge in Tallahassee. Newspapers all over the country covered the story. Higginbotham was tried for first-degree murder, but acquitted. As a result of Tabert's death, Florida Governor Cary Hardee signed bills which forbid the flogging of prisoners and outlawed the convict leasing system in Florida. The leasing system was not completely abolished until 1923.Fact|date=September 2008

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