Or in this case a spine for a spine. To all those who wish terrible things be done to other people in the name of justice they are trying to do it in saudi http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/19/saudi-arabia-judge-paralyse-convict Saudi Arabian judge asks hospitals to paralyse man A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals whether they would punitively damage a man's spinal cord after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralysing him, local newspapers reported today. Saudi Arabia enforces strict sharia law and occasionally metes out punishments based on the ancient code of an eye for an eye. Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, 22, was left paralysed after a fight more than two years ago, and asked a judge to impose an equivalent punishment on his attacker under sharia law, reports said. The newspaper Okaz said the judge in northwestern Tabuk province, identified as Saoud bin Suleiman al-Youssef, asked at least two hospitals for a medical opinion on whether surgeons could render the attacker's spinal cord nonfunctional. The attacker, who was not identified, has spent seven months in jail. The reports cited the letter of response from one of the hospitals and the victim. Two of the hospitals involved and the court were closed for the Saudi weekend beginning today and could not be reached for comment. Okaz reported that a leading hospital in Riyadh – King Faisal specialist hospital – said that it would not do the operation. The article quoted a letter from the hospital saying "inflicting such harm is not possible", apparently refusing on ethical grounds. The story was also reported by Saudi English-language paper Arab News, though neither paper carried any response from a second hospital that reportedly received the request, King Khaled hospital in Tabuk province. Sharia law in Saudi Arabia allows defendants to ask for a similar punishment to harms inflicted on them. Cutting off the hands of thieves, for example, is common. Under the law, the victim can receive blood money to settle the case. Human rights group say trials in Saudi Arabia fall far below international standards. They usually take place behind closed doors and without adequate legal representation. Those who are sentenced to death are often not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them, or of the date of execution until the morning on which they are taken out and beheaded. The headless body can then be crucified in a public place as a way to set an example, according to the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has been trying to clamp down on extremist ideology, including unauthorised clerics issuing odd religious decrees.
If you're really that self-righteous, how is this ANY WORSE than the death penalty in America. Texas jurisdiction has killed more than any other government entity in the world. I don't have a solution for corporal punishment issues. I don't think any country does either.
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I am not trying to judge what they are doing, but i always read about what people want to do with people like child molester etc., and this seems like a real terrible punishment. Wonder what those people would say. I didn't mean for thi to be dd thread, but I guess it maybe should be.
Why not just take him out back and hit him a couple of times with a sledge hammer? That should do it. Oh....would that be cruel and unusual? I guess it might be.
I'm kind of old school and believe in the eye for an eye line of thought. After all, the guilty did a horrible thing, and you should turn the tables on them. Talk about rehabilitation. On the flip side of the coin, even though some criminals commit some of the most disgusting crimes, to purposely put them through it too does seem cruel. Then again, we "normal" folk feel that way, I'm sure the criminals didn't feel that way when they committed said crimes. As an uninvolved party we probably think it's cruel, but I bet if the victim were a relative of mine I might not have a problem with the eye for an eye treatment. It is a pretty crazy idea.
I'm OK with it if the person receiving the punishment is 100% guilty of doing the crime. Which I guess is the problem with any form of capital punishment there is always the risk you are killing an innocent person. I can only speak about my country here(Australia) in that 2 years ago I would of agreed that anything like this or capital punishment was evil and shouldn't be done. Now however Judges here are handing down pathetically light sentences. Murderers are getting out in under 10 years in many cases(while their victims never taste freedom again). We just recently had a moron judge hand down only an 18 month sentence to a piece of **** who sexually abused an 18 month old child and filmed it. So while something like this may seem barbaric and over the top, I would take it over the light sentences criminals get away with here.
