As of April 2011, 19 states allow corporal punishment in public schools.

Regulations could not allow punishment by either fine or prison without trial.

Before today, 23 people had been put to death this year and 246 since 1976, when the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume.

Already, some local leaders talk about possibly tightening the law to allow harsher punishment of juveniles.

But if the matter is settled before trial, Federal guidelines allow punishment not involving prison.

Since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976, 431 men have been executed.

Our collective conscience does not allow punishment where it cannot impose blame.

Unlike their traditional predecessors, Jadid schools did not allow corporal punishment.

In 1976, the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume.

All except for one of the states which allow capital punishment are equipped with a death chamber, but many states rarely put them to use.