Saudi Arabia Execute Man Via CRUCIFIXION (and beheading)

Their law system is based upon sharia law which I don't particularly like no.If we are going to have a death penalty it should only be for particularly henious crimes like murder or child abuse.The problem is that it shouldn't really be about revenge.Otherwise we'd let the victims families decide a sentence which would just result in mob mentality.The sentence should fit the crime but neither should it amount to torture.Thats what's separates good people from bad people.We don't kill for fun.In my view the law should be as dispassionate as possible without letting emotions cloud the facts.But you have to have a high standard of proof.Even in the USA many innocent people have been convicted.


.And I agree with the corpses thing.Personally I do think it's pretty disrespectful to put somebody's body on display.It doesn't really make it better when we do it either.But it's not really like we're displaying it to scare people or to terrify them into submission.Those bodies are usually displayed for educational purposes in museums.Not saying it's right but they are different reasons.The way the Saudis do it is clearly meant to be a demonstration of power and a lesson to the populace.

Interestingly I saw two news article from the same news paper which had very similar stories. One news article was about this Saudi story and other was about Yemen story where some men had raped a 10 year old and murdered him and then the men were executed by gun shot as punishment and then their bodies hung in public.

In the Saudi article, I think the top three rated comments were attacking Saudi arabia. On the Yemen article, the top three rated comments were fully supportive of Yemen. It was strange to see this on the same website as the punishment dished out were very similar in nature.

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Surely that was clear from the words that you quoted. The clue is in 'the barbarity of executions'. The absence of a second definite article indicates I was talking of executions in general and not just about the ones under discussion in this thread, and the subsequent phrase, 'especially those carried out in a cruel way', emphasises that those under specific discussion are even worse than a run of the mill execution undertaken in a modern, more humane, manner

The man was convicted of theft, attempted rape and murder, what do you guys think is a just punishment for those crimes?

I prefer the lateral approach - they do what they want, we do what we want, and never the twain shall meet.

Make your minds up already. Do you only support capital punishment when the victim is someone you don't like?

No, Saudi Arabia does not follow Quranic law. The House of Saud is one of the most dangerous institutions presently at war against Islam. The Saudi Arabian monarchy is a primary cause of nearly every single problem in the Muslim world today. It is their commanding the pledge of allegiance from the Muslims whilst taking for intimate companions the neocolonialist West that has led to the divisions, autocracy, war and oppression against the Muslim Ummah.

Article 5 of the Saudi Constitution clearly states that "The system of government in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is that of a monarchy." Yet the Quran tells us very clearly about what kings do where it says that "Surely the kings, when they enter a town, ruin it and make the noblest of its people to be low, and thus they always do" [27:34].

The Saudi banking system operates under interest (riba) which Sharia law strictly forbids. Saudi greed has totally replaced Islamic banking with the interest capitalist method.

These are just 2 examples of Saudi not following the Quranic laws rather following what they impose on others to be Islamic

I don't support capital punishment. However, I do support each state's right to use it if it wishes (and for us not to interfere in that decision. If Saudi Arabia wishes to inflict cruel and barbaric punishments then that is a matter for Saudi Arabia.

I do not support the idea that Britain should try to interfere in what happens to the captured jihadis as they are (a) accused of crimes abroad, (b) are abroad, and (c) are not UK citizens. They chose to commit crimes and wage war and they must take the consequences of that choice from whatever country's hands they end up in.

I don't have to sympathise with criminals because I don't like capital punishment, of course.

Saudi Arabia is a member of (and has even chaired) the UN Human Rights Council, which amongst other things, is committed to the global abolition of capital punishment.

Saudi Arabia is a member of (and has even chaired) the UN Human Rights Council, which amongst other things, is committed to the global abolition of capital punishment. So it would appear that even the Saudis do not subscribe to the 'totally alone' principle of sovereign government, even if it is only a matter of paying lip service to wider ethical systems.

Still, the Saudis are in good company, like the US, North Korea and China, they just love a good execution.

Add the UK to your list. We are complicit in the capital punishment if the Jihadi pair get trialed in the US.

In fact, waking up to news yesterday of a pregnant woman and her daughter being killed by Israeli air strikes and Saudi bombing a school bus full of Yemeni kids makes us complicit in cold-blooded murder of civilians abroad as well.

We should join Canada in the boycott thing.

I read that the Saudis are pulling their people out of Canada and cancelling flights to the country. I just couldn't help thinking how good that sounds and wondering why on earth we aren't joining with Canada.

Add the UK to your list. We are complicit in the capital punishment if the Jihadi pair get trialed in the US.