The schools the association lists as members prohibit corporal punishment.

Such attitudes have blocked efforts in some states to prohibit corporal punishment.

Article 78 prohibits corporal punishment and the deprivation of daylight.

For instance, the ombudsman has been instrumental in legislation prohibiting physical punishment of children.

Mexico's laws, like those of the United States, prohibit cruel and unusual punishment.

Most states now either prohibit capital punishment altogether or ban its use against the mentally retarded.

Under some circumstances federal prosecutors would be empowered to seek the death penalty even in the 14 states which had prohibited capital punishment.

The first country in the world to prohibit corporal punishment was Poland, in 1783.

In 1783, Poland became the first country in the world to prohibit corporal punishment.

Section 11: the right to life, which has been held to prohibit capital punishment, but does not prohibit abortion.