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However, some former colonies in the Caribbean have reinstated flogging with the cat.

Antigua and Barbuda reinstated it in 1990, followed by the Bahamas in 1991 ( where, however, it was subsequently banned by law ) and Barbados in 1993 ( only to be formally declared inhumane and thus unconstitutional by the Barbados Supreme Court ).