List of deaths by corporal punishment

The following are people who have died from corporal punishment:
* Reginald Cancellor, an English student, died in 1860 from excessive corporal punishment administered by schoolmaster Thomas Hopley. Hopley was convicted of the death and the British government passed legislation to ensure that a similar incident did not occur again.
* Melonie Hamber, a 2-year-old resident of Baltimore, Maryland, was disciplined on April 17, 2010 with a "whipping belt". She "was severely beaten" and died that same day at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Section 4-501 of Maryland's Family Law empowers the parents and stepparents of a child to administer corporal punishment to the child and that section does not prohibit the use of belts.
* Laree Slack, a 12 year old from Butte County, California, died after her parents, Constance Slack and Larry Slack Sr., tied her to a bed-frame and whipped her chest, back, and legs for more that two hours with an electrical cable. The girl was struck 160 times. Laree died from internal bleeding several hours later. Both parents were convicted of first-degree murder in 2006 as a result of the beating.
* Martin Tabert, a 22 year old arrested for vagrancy, died after being flogged about 100 times with a 5-foot leather strap in 1921. The flogging was punishment for Tabert failing to perform his work as part of a prison work-gang in Leon County, Florida. He was weak with malaria at the time. Sheriff J. R. Jones had "sold" the boy to the head of the work-gang for a twenty-five dollar fee. A ballad by Marjory Stoneman Douglas exposed the case. The whipping-boss, Walter Higginbotham, was charged with Tabert's murder but acquitted. Florida's then governor Cary Hardee outlawed the use of flogging in the wake of public outrage over the death.
* Private Frederick John White, was flogged to death at Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow, England in 1847.

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