Posted on 08/19/2010 11:01:28 AM PDT by Justaham
A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man's spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralyzing him, local newspapers reported on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia enforces strict Islamic law and occasionally metes out punishments based on the ancient legal code of an eye-for-an-eye. However, Saudi King Abdullah has been trying to clamp down on extremist ideology.
The reports said Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, 22, was left paralyzed after a fight more than two years ago and asked a judge to impose an equivalent punishment on his attacker under Islamic law.
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 in the reports, has spent seven months in jail.
The reports cited the letter of response from one of the hospitals and the victim al-Mutairi. Two of the hospitals involved and the court were closed for the Saudi weekend beginning Thursday and could not be reached for comment.
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Now that is taking the eye for an eye thing pretty literally.
Just send him here...I’m sure I can find someone to “hook him up”...
Hammurabi’s Code. Eye for eye=compensatory damages. We have that here.
I won’t post the photos... most repulsive... but Islamic judges convicted a young child of stealing... his punishment... they ran over his arm with a truck, crushing it. Religion of peace, religion of tolerance.
Clueless.
Its funny who the author of this piece is.
I thought the same thing.
That series of photos has already been debunked. It’s a “magic” trick, and the boy was unharmed.
An excellent example of “cruel and unusual”.
In our civil system compensation is strictly monetary in an amount determined by jury. Criminals are fined or incarcerated — and may be required to remunerate (pay a cash award to) their victims.
Do “the Hamurrabi”!
I was using the term loosely. Compensatory damages could however pay for an eye replacement. I was being partly sarcastic.
IMO, anyone that can be tried as an adult and is guilty of theft should loose that hand.
But...i’m biased. My wife and I were ripped off by a woman that basically made (makes) her living by ripping people off.
What angers me is that it is soooo easy to steal in this country and the legal system won’t touch the guilty...in fact they make it very difficult for the innocent to prosecute the guilty.
Crime does pay in this country...it pays very well.
I’d love to see more harsh punishment....but the probability of the abuse of the law enforcement scares me. I’m trapped!
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