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Saudi Judge Wants Punishment of a Paralysis for a Paralysis
Saturday, August 21, 2010
A judge in Saudi Arabia has asked at least two hospitals if they will intentionally sever a man’s spinal cord as punishment for his crime of crippling another man with a meat cleaver.
The culprit already was convicted for the attack and served seven months of a 14-month sentence before being released. The victim, Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, then asked Judge Saoud bin Suleiman al-Youssef in Tabuk province to impose Qisas (retaliation) punishment, which means an eye for an eye—literally—on his assailant, who now works as a school teacher.
Qisas is rarely carried out. A notable example occurred in 2000, when an Egyptian national was convicted in Medina of throwing acid in the face of another Egyptian and damaging his left eye. The guilty party, Abdel Moti Abdel Rahman Mohammad, was sentenced to forcible removal of his left eye.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
A judge in Saudi Arabia has asked at least two hospitals if they will intentionally sever a man’s spinal cord as punishment for his crime of crippling another man with a meat cleaver.
The culprit already was convicted for the attack and served seven months of a 14-month sentence before being released. The victim, Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, then asked Judge Saoud bin Suleiman al-Youssef in Tabuk province to impose Qisas (retaliation) punishment, which means an eye for an eye—literally—on his assailant, who now works as a school teacher.
Qisas is rarely carried out. A notable example occurred in 2000, when an Egyptian national was convicted in Medina of throwing acid in the face of another Egyptian and damaging his left eye. The guilty party, Abdel Moti Abdel Rahman Mohammad, was sentenced to forcible removal of his left eye.
