Which US state was the last to abolish whipping as a judicial punishment?

“Red Hannah,” was laid to rest in 1972, when the First State’s Criminal Code was massively revised. The final prisoner to be flogged with a cat o’ nine tails while tied to the infamous whipping post felt the lash in 1952. In 1963, Superior Court Judge Stewart Lynch sentenced a man to flogging, but the whip never came down.

Delaware was also the last state to abolish the pillory, in 1905. Only the federal abolition of it ended slavery in Delaware, with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Although 31 states have banned corporal punishment in public schools, Mississippi, Arizona, and Wyoming still allow it, as do these states still allow it: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Some states require parental permission to inflict pain on children. Data indicate that most who suffer in this manner are African-American or disabled.