Saudi Arabia’s judicial practices are often abhorrent to me–sentencing a gang rape victim to hundreds of lashes, for instance, or refusing to allow an eight-year-old to divorce the 47-year-old man her father sold her to, or even beating and jailing a 75 year old woman for being alone in a house with two young men (both of whom were also beaten and jailed).
However, I’m mostly fine with beheading this guy for kidnapping and murdering an 11-year-old boy and then doing the same to the boy’s father. I’m also confused as to the additional upset about the fact that they displayed the guy’s (re-headed) body afterwards–so?
Yikes. You aren’t serious are you? While what he did is obviously abhorrent, I’m a firm believer that fighting violence with violence is never the solution. What next? Shall we go back to executions in the town square? Sell popcorn and candy to the kiddies while they watch someone get their head whacked off? Would you really want to see a mutilated dead body on display? Would you want your children to see this? I sure as shit do not want to have to be subjected to such barbarity and I wouldn’t wish such barbarity on anyone else either.
I was under the impression that we had evolved beyond the middle ages. Apparently I was mistaken.
I’m philosophically opposed to capital punishment.
http://punkassblog.com/2008/06/26/on-the-death-penalty-partisanship-and-the-rape-of-children-part-one/
It’s just hard for me to get worked up over people like this being on the receiving end of it.
Not getting worked up about it and condoning it are two different things. I don’t get terribly worked up about murderers being executed, but I certainly don’t condone it. This post makes it seem like you are condoning the behavior.
“Al-Anzi’s body was displayed as a warning that those involved in similar crimes would suffer the same fate”
Dammmmn! This is some of that ol’ frontier justice. But it also belies the fact that the death penalty does not act as a deterrent. If that were so, this crime would not have happened.
I also makes light of a justice system that remains stuck in the Middle Ages and is skewed toward men. No matter how egregious the initial behavior, the resulting behavior is just as horrible.