It depends where outside the US, one imagines --- but there are certainly places that are generally worse. Law enforcement agencies in, say, China, are not known for their respect for the rights of the accused or their scrupulous attitude towards due process.
If the other option were years of prosecution, loss of millions of dollars and the potential to be sentenced for 35 years in prison and paying millions more... I'd take the caning in a heart beat. Who wouldn't?
Just goes to show that our belief that the US justice system is more civilized than most of the rest of the world is a superficial load of horseshit.
