Ban the whip! - Mair asks for removal of laws along with amendments to Charter of Rights - Public defender agrees flogging is inhumane

Jamaica Gleaner News "A day after Government backbencher Gregory Mair passionately warned that the retention of whipping and flogging on the law books would do violence to the proposed Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, Public Defender Earl Witter asserted that he was in agreement with a Court of Appeal ruling in the 1990s that regarded such punishment as degrading and inhumane."