Saudi man to be paralyzed as punishment

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This is some serious punishment! I'm for the death penalty but strangely enough, this just makes me sick to think about.

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What do you expect from crazy people? These idiots still crucify people. The Greeks used to divide the world into civilized people and barbarians... and they were right. The real problem is that the "civilized" world just lets this happen.
And about the death penalty and other cruel punishments... I find most people think it's ok for other people to be subjected to that. But what if you just happened to have an idiot son or an idiot sibling that ends up on death row? I can't image what it would be like to have your own child be executed by your own government.

There goes you Muslim. Different mountain, different god.

ruveyn

I've never heard of that punishment over there before.

These so called retribution cases sound very weird. I don't like the idea of having such an open ended justice system.

For those of you who want to turn America into a Biblically based culture, take a good look, because the US will become just like Saudi Arabia, who despite having all the modern conviencies of any Western European culture, are still firmly rooted in what is essentially an unchanged version of the same culture that your Jesus was born into 2000 or so years ago.

Actually, Ruvyn, this actually IS the same god and the same mountain of the Jewish YHWH, albiet without the past 2000 years of changing, and moderation of doctrinal belief that Judaism, Christianity, and more liberal strains of Islam have progressed in.

Remember the old Judaic law of retribution via 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth'? --This is the same put into practice.

Also, because of the fact that Saudi Arabia is the heart of the Islamic world, and they have plenty of oil money to fund Wahhabism/Salafism, their strain of Islam is quickly becoming the standard form of Islam. When they announce a Wahhabi/Salafi Califate, be very afraid.

I don't want to turn it into a Biblically based culture at all, I just think that if you kill somebody on purpose, you should probably be put to death too because there's no telling who you'll kill next. Of course if it were my child I would think completely differently. Everything changes when it's your own child. You can forgive your child anything. However my ex husband is going to get the needle from Mississippi. That doesn't bother me a bit. He deserves it, he's done a lot of stuff to a lot of people and got away with it before he shot this one gang member and killed him.

The thing about this Saudi thing is that I could see doing it if the circumstances were different. If he had tortured the other guy and paralyzed him and all that, then I wouldn't have a problem with the punishment. But I doubt he meant to do that at the time, I mean they were just 14 years old! Also, I don't like the fact that whether or not they do that depends on if he can pay the fine. That's like the mob or something.

I also wonder how they will do it. Will they just get somebody to hurt him, hit him in the back or the neck with a tire iron, or are they actually going to take him into an OR and have a doctor open him up, sever his spinal cord, and then sew him back up and then they treat him like a regular patient. I just don't see doing that. Of course if he had kidnapped a 14 year old and tortured him then I would be all for the victims parents being given the tire iron and turned loose on him to do whatever they wanted until their arm got tired. I don't base that on anything Biblical, I base it on what I would want to do if somebody did that to my child. Again, if my child was the criminal I would feel differently. I admit that. That doesn't mean that I don't think it's a good law. It just means that when it comes to people I love, I'm a total hypocrite.

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Perhaps one reason that Muslim countries are still willing to execute for the most serious crimes is that they simply cannot feed and care for prisoners who would deserve life sentences.

They cannot even feed their own people, and their medical care is largely nonexistent for the poor.

Sylkat

Oil rich, perhaps. But that still leaves a huge services gap. The government is increasingly incapable of meeting the needs of Saudi citizens, and Royal family members are increasingly called upon to intervene through their various majalis to resolve issues in which the bureaucracy has failed or is powerless to act.