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While 31 states have now banned corporal punishment, these states still allow it: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.
19771. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT state tort remedy to provide the students thesame protection, which could also have been afforded by the eighth amendment. 8 4 This in-dicates that the Court's criminal/non-criminaldistinction in regard to eighth amendment ap-plicability is not a hard and fast rule.