Saudi court upholds child rapist crucifixion ruling

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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.

The convict was arrested earlier this year after a seven-year old boy helped police in their investigation. The child left in the desert after the rape was three years old, Okaz newspaper said.

International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public. So far this year about 40 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia.

In Saudi Arabia, crucifixion means tying the body of the convict to wooden beams to be displayed to the public after beheading.

(Reporting by Souhail Karam; editing by Inal Ersan)
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http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-43639120091103

normally i think the saudis are over the top crazy with their criminal punishments. but this one i can roll with.
 
Story seems pointless though. It's not a Roman style crucifixion. He's already beheaded at that point. It's not a form of punishment if you are doing it to a corpse. Teenage daughters are stoned to death in front of their homes by their own parents as punishment for being raped, and this sick fuck gets a swift chop and his body turned into a street corner amusement.

Why not just install an electric chair. Perhaps one powered by a hand crank to keep within the theme of being a couple centuries behind the times.
 
Sweet. Good for them. If this was the US, the guy would be found crazy, spend 20 years in a ward, then get released and start raping kids again. I sincerely doubt this guy will be raping anything.

And they aren't doing it for the sole purpose of punishment, they're doing it as an example for others. You make it that gruesome, and they hope they've scared some folks straight.
 
[quote name='berzirk']Sweet. Good for them. If this was the US, the guy would be found crazy, spend 20 years in a ward, then get released and start raping kids again. I sincerely doubt this guy will be raping anything.

And they aren't doing it for the sole purpose of punishment, they're doing it as an example for others. You make it that gruesome, and they hope they've scared some folks straight.[/QUOTE]

I see your Christian principles only kick in when it comes to denying rights to the evil gays. How surprising. :roll:
 
Pics or it didn't happen!:bouncy:

What the should have done is hung him up on the cross and started by chopping his nuts off.

Then shove a log up his rear.

All the while leaving him on display.

Then finally just chop his head off!
 
[quote name='Kirin Lemon']I see your Christian principles only kick in when it comes to denying rights to the evil gays. How surprising. :roll:[/QUOTE]
Religion of convenience.;)
 
[quote name='Kirin Lemon']I see your Christian principles only kick in when it comes to denying rights to the evil gays. How surprising. :roll:[/QUOTE]

I'm not Christian. Good to see you're cross-thread stalking me though. I'm honored.

...and if you're upset that I'm all in favor of denying rights to confirmed child rapists, then it's fair to say you and I have very different views on life.
 
More than half of US states have crimes that can be sanctioned with capital punishment.

Our policies and practices take place behind closed doors, hidden from public view, but have the same effect.

The public/private issue is really the only difference I see between the Saudi and American treatment of capital punishment. And that's certainly not that huge of an ordeal, is it?
 
I feel for the kids but I could care less about the Saudi legal system. It's not like Sharia law will be coming here anytime soon unless you believe Faux News.
 
So a child rapist's punishment is really just beheading which seems par for the course for that area of the world and amusingly enough sounds relatively modern. Nice to know they still keep it ancient by displaying a headless corpse though.
 
[quote name='crunchb3rry']Story seems pointless though. It's not a Roman style crucifixion. He's already beheaded at that point. It's not a form of punishment if you are doing it to a corpse. Teenage daughters are stoned to death in front of their homes by their own parents as punishment for being raped, and this sick fuck gets a swift chop and his body turned into a street corner amusement.[/quote]
I think this post sums up how I feel about this issue. Beheading is arguably more humane than any execution method we employ - it's just more gruesome.


[quote name='depascal22']I feel for the kids but I could care less about the Saudi legal system. It's not like Sharia law will be coming here anytime soon unless you believe Faux News.[/QUOTE]
I am anxiously awaiting your forthcoming post where you prove where fox claimed so.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']I am anxiously awaiting your forthcoming post where you prove where fox claimed so.[/QUOTE]

Google gave me this: http://mediamatters.org/research/200909100040

It's media matters of course, but I could link to other videos instead. And apparently it stems from older shit, also reported by others on Fox during their "news" time.
 
[quote name='SpazX']Google gave me this: http://mediamatters.org/research/200909100040

It's media matters of course, but I could link to other videos instead. And apparently it stems from older shit, also reported by others on Fox during their "news" time.[/QUOTE]

I actually don't despise Fox News, but I do very much despise Michelle Malkin who is occassionally on Fox News. She claimed muslims were trying to invoke Sharia when some cabbies in Kansas Citypaid to install faucets in a bathroom for washing before prayer. YouTube clip of it somewhere. She was debating a guy named Hussein Ibish if I remember right.

If they took Hannity, Ingram, Beck, and Malkin off of Fox, I'd actually watch it quite a bit.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']But two of the above who have regular shows are the ratings draw for the network. yours is a pipe dream, I'm afraid.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. I'm not holding my breath for Hannity and Beck to get fired, but since they aren't on all day, I do watch it sometimes.

O'Reilly actually had a great comment when he was on the View (I was home with the piggy flu flipping through channels...seriously...I don't watch the View. Haa haa) and Whoopie Goldberg, or one of the other annoying ladies with a New York accent was ripping O'Reilly because Beck and Hannity don't like Obama. He basically said as far as he knew, there were only 2-3 of their anchors or show hosts that felt that way, and that he never made comments about hoping Obama fails.

It was a great point, because I do think the folks that work at Fox get lumped together unfairly because there are a few outspoken idiots. They are most certainly no worse than Olbermann and Maddow though at MSNBC.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']More than half of US states have crimes that can be sanctioned with capital punishment.

Our policies and practices take place behind closed doors, hidden from public view, but have the same effect.

The public/private issue is really the only difference I see between the Saudi and American treatment of capital punishment. And that's certainly not that huge of an ordeal, is it?[/QUOTE]

I disagree, there's a difference between treating the execution as a solemn event and filming footage for "The Running Man"
 
Who's to say that their society regards public execution as a cultural event to be celebrated, and not something solemn?

Methinks you would do well to read Foucault's "To Discipline and Punish."
 
[quote name='mykevermin']so...you think O'Reilly is impartial and right-down-the-middle?[/QUOTE]

No, I think he leans conservative (mostly socially conservative), but I'm quite confident he's an independent by party affiliation. I think he's stated that before. Could be wrong though.

I'm registered independent, and would say I'm socially conservative, but liberal with regards to other issues.
 
this thread really took off late after i orginally posted it.

i suppose im to blame, its turned into a fox news discussion. i was hoping it would turn into a discussion on how our justice systems handles child molesters and rapists. ya know, giving them a few years and letting em out. pedophiles are the biggest repeat offenders, etc etc.
 
[quote name='RAMSTORIA']this thread really took off late after i orginally posted it.

i suppose im to blame, its turned into a fox news discussion. i was hoping it would turn into a discussion on how our justice systems handles child molesters and rapists. ya know, giving them a few years and letting em out. pedophiles are the biggest repeat offenders, etc etc.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. Personally I believe a sex crime, particularly against a child, should be auto-death penalty. If you've elected to abuse a child in that fashion, you've lost your humanity card and it's time for you to go bye-bye, whether it's through beheading, electrocution, firing squad, or lethal injection.

I'm also guilty of getting into the legitimacy of Fox News discussion. :oops:

That seems to be the new counter argument to anything. "Faux news said such and such! Those republican idiots!"
 
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