Saudi court upholds child rapist crucifixion ruling

Roiders ^ | Tue Nov 3, 2009 2:22pm IST | Souhail Karam; editing by Inal Ersan

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RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public.

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In Saudi's case crucifixion is a public display of the beheaded body.

What we might call corpse abuse.

Hard to argue with the penalty in this case, though...

[sbMKE]

Seems too lenient.

[pnh102]

Excellent!

[ConservativeMind]

This is an example of what we should do with the same, here.

[edcoil]

“upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children”

Saudi’s = 1

West = 0

[ibheath]

I agree with their idea of justice, in this case.

[LongElegantLegs]

So what punishment do the kids get?

[OneWingedShark]

Murder and Rape SHOULD be capitally punished.

[-YYZ-]

Assuming the accused is actually guilty - S.A. courts do not have a good reputation.

[2banana]

The Saudis only get this upset when it is muslim on muslim or infidel on muslim crime...

[GunningForTheBuddha]

Just to prove that a broken religion is correct twice a millennium.

[AUH2O Repub]

The muzzies even get one right once in a while.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public.”

Communists have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public.

Fixed it.

[Jaxter]

I don’t have a problem with the penalty. I just fine it a tad hypocritical. Didn’t Mohammed marry a 9 year old girl?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Possibly the only good thing about the Saudi’s ;-)

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

In this case, I can’t disagree with the court’s ruling.

[celtic gal]

Wonder how long the appeals case will go ( sarc)..I bet the sentence has already been carried out.

[SolidWood]

I can live with that. Justice is served in this case.

[celtic gal]

Well if the guy had done this to a grown woman or a teenage girl, the girl or woman would be stoned to death but the guy..a few lashes. But with children, well that puts a different spin on things.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Agreed, terrible headline.