"Ickety, Ackety, Ook. It's Yours."
Posted on 11/03/2009 11:24:26 AM PST by BigEdLB
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.
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In Saudi Arabia, crucifixion means tying the body of the convict to wooden beams to be displayed to the public after beheading.
(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...
Hate to agree with them, but I do on this one.
I wish we had this type of punishment here in the States for trash like this, especially in Florida!
Proof there is some good in every culture.
Still, whatever they want to call it they're arriving at the correct solution to their society's problem with this guy. Shame our society doesn't care enough about children to be bothered carrying out appropriate sentences.
as long as the beheading comes 2nd, I’m cool with that.
Is the dude guilty?
Saudi Arabia > Vermont
There are a few instances where I whole heartedly agree with the moosies on, this is one.
We should do the same and put it on public broadcasting.
May put a stop to it pretty quickly.
Course there would be those who just want the publicity.
Looks like the beheading comes first, then they hang the body up for all to see
I wonder how long the head stays alive after decapitation. I once cut a worm in half, and it stayed alive for a couple of days!
It used to be the custom to have public hangings, with the thought that it might discourage some of the onlookers from committing the crimes in question. And before that, it was a regular custom in the west to cut off the heads of executed criminals and stick them up on spikes.
I’m not sure if we want to do that, but a return to hanging and the public stocks might be one way to lower the costs of dealing with criminals, instead of paying union wages to prison workers who complain about having too much work to do.
Any town which refused and foght them would have a handful of their leading citizens crucified in a prominent location for all to see such as a hilltop or by the city gate.
Ok, gotta give ‘em the stopped clock thing on this.
I thought these guys were good at this type of punishment. They should crucify him BEFORE beheading him. Just to tenderize him a bit.
HASSAN CHOP!
Sometimes you just have to admire Saudi justice! He will never be able to do it again!
I wonder if we (westerners) had this type of punishment if our recidivism rate would be non-existent.
as long as the beheading comes in THIRD after his privates have been doused with battery acid and the beheading is performed SLOWLY with a dull razor blade.
And all of this is minor compared to what awaits him in Hell, due to that whole “millstone around the neck” promise in the Bible.
From what I’ve read about the guillotine the headless person stays conscious for a short time. They essentially pass out from blood loss. Not nearly as painful as this guy deserves.
“I wonder if we (westerners) had this type of punishment if our recidivism rate would be non-existent.”
I’d say repeat offenses would be very very low.
Initial offenses probably would go down as well.
The Guillotine doesn’t miss. The Saudi swordsman must take a second whack from time to time.
Now, I hate to ask this, but what happens to the kids. Do the fathers “honor” kill them for being raped? It’s happened before to poor muslim teenage girls.
Wow. I’ve just looked it up, and it seems the head is alive for 30 seconds. Read this!
Consider the case of Languille, a convicted murderer who was guillotined in France. He was observed by Dr. Beaurieux during his execution at 5:30am on June 28th, 1905. As written in Archives d’Anthropologie Criminelle, here are the doctor’s observations:
Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds … I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased.
The face relaxed, the lids half closed on the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day in the exercise of our profession, or as in those just dead.
It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: ‘Languille!’ I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions … Next Languille’s eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves … After several seconds, the eyelids closed again, slowly and evenly, and the head took on the same appearance as it had had before I called out.
It was at that point that I called out again and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time. Then there was a further closing of the eyelids, but now less complete. I attempted the effect of a third call; there was no further movement and the eyes took on the glazed look which they have in the dead.
I have just recounted to you with rigorous exactness what I was able to observe. The whole thing had lasted twenty-five to thirty seconds.
I think they have it backwards - crucify him first ... t
I was thinking about the half time during Super Bowl.
"Ickety, Ackety, Ook. It's Yours."
Years ago I had a boss who remembered hearing minute-by-minute live descriptions of executions in New Jersey. He said he would be glued to the radio as the announer described the prisoner being taken from his cell, walked to the execution chamber, strapped in....etc. He said it made quite an impression on him.
Maybe a reality TV show would help curtail some crime.
One would think so BUT then again you would get that sicko who would do bad just for the audience.
But I would have to think MOST would get the correct message.
SO, tell me about your garden?
What part of Calif?
How much land? What are ya growing?
Wouldn’t be any more of a downer than most of their halftime shows.
Probably a least bring a real applause.
Everything Ok in W.Va?
Getting cold yet?
Works for me.
This acid throwing caper by jealous men is quite common in India and Pakistan, and is known in Afghanistan. It has been spreading into Iran, but is not very common, and ever less so, now that they have that penalty.
In those harsh societies, the punishment needs to fit the crime. Maybe in our society as well.
The internet is a wonder isnt it? In the past we would simply assume that things worked for a few seconds.
I will file this away under stuff that I probably didnt need to know. But thanks for looking it up.
Yuck.
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