Criminal codes on the Delmarva Peninsula permitted judges to sentence perpetrators of crimes such as larceny, breaking and entering, wife beating, and more to lashes on the bare back well into the 20th. Under the original colonial statutes, wrongdoers received this ancient punishment for a broader range of crimes, including forgery, counterfeiting, Sabbath breaking, blasphemy, witchcraft, and dozens of other offenses. As enlightened corrections emerged in the nation, largely based on imprisonment, this punishment was dropped from the codes in most states, but it persisted on the Peninsula far longer.
Maryland, perhaps the next to last state to use flogging, moved more quickly than 
Delaware to eradicate whippings. In 1882 Maryland changed its code so that only one offense, wife-beating, called for a whipping and/or imprisonment. The last time a whipping post sentence was handed down in Cecil County was December 1940 when the Circuit Court ordered a 42-year old wife-beater to serve 60-days in the jail and receive ten lashes at the whipping post. A local newspaper, the Cecil Democrat, remarked that this was the first time in 46-years that a person was sentenced to the whipping post in Cecil. The cat-o-nine-tails were wielded by Sheriff David Randolph. The whip was apparently last used on the Western Shore in Prince Georges County in 1945 when Judge Marbury ordered lashes for a prisoner. A Frederick County magistrate in 1952 ordered ten lashes for a defendant but Governor McKeldin pardoned the “barbarous and inhumane” punishment.
Delaware’s criminal code permitted floggings to occur until 1972. That year Governor Russell W. Peterson signed into law a revised criminal code in Delaware, which abolished the outdated punishment. Flogging was last used in 1952 in the first-state, when a wife beater was flogged.
Reflections on Delmarva's Past 
A motivating discussion is worth comment. I do think that you should publish more on this subject Best wishes.
Thanks Harry. We’ll get back to this topic as some point.