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Judicial birching was abolished in the Isle of Man in 1993 following the 1978 judgment in Tyrer v. UK by the European Court of Human Rights. [64] The last birching had taken place in January 1976; the last caning, of a 13-year-old boy convicted of robbing another child of 10p, was the last recorded juvenile case in May 1971. [65]
Today birching is rarely used as a judicial punishment, and it has also almost completely died out as a punishment for children. In the United Kingdom, birching as a judicial penalty, in both its juvenile and adult versions, was abolished in 1948, but it was retained until 1962 as a punishment for violent breaches of prison discipline.
1978: European Court of Human Rights, overseeing its implementation, rules that judicial birching of a juvenile breaches Article 3. [26] 1985: Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice, or Beijing Rules, United Nations . Rule 17.3: "Juveniles shall not be subject to corporal punishment."
Dallas: 1954 2004–present — — G.W. Bush: 34 District Judge Reed O'Connor: Fort Worth: 1965 2007–present — — G.W. Bush: 35 District Judge Karen Gren Scholer: Dallas: 1957 2018–present — — Trump: 36 District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk: Amarillo: 1977 2019–present — — Trump: 37 District Judge Mark T. Pittman: Fort Worth ...
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The tamarind switch (in Creole English tambran switch) is a judicial birch-like instrument for corporal punishment made from three tamarind rods, braided and oiled, used long after independence in the Caribbean Commonwealth island states of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. [2]
By a majority of six votes to one, the court held Tyrer's birching to constitute degrading treatment contrary to the Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. [2] Significant conclusions of the case included that "the Convention is a living instrument which, as the Commission rightly stressed, must be interpreted in the light of ...
The Texas Supreme Court Building. Texas is the only state besides Oklahoma to have a bifurcated appellate system at the highest level. [4] The Texas Supreme Court hears appeals involving civil matters (which include juvenile cases), and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals involving criminal matters. [4]