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Title: Paedophile to be beheaded and crucified in Saudi Arabia for string of sex attacks where he left toddler to die in desert
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URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor ... g-left-toddler-die-desert.html
Published: Nov 4, 2009
Author: Daily Mail Reporter
Post Date: 2009-11-04 06:34:47 by Disgusted
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Views: 331
Comments: 22
A man in Saudi Arabia is to be beheaded and crucified after he raped five children and left one of them, a three-year-old boy, to die in the desert. An appeal court in the capital Riyadh approved the death sentence handed down in June by judges in the northwestern oasis city of Hail where the convicted 22-year-old man carried out his crimes. The rapist - who was not named - was arrested several weeks ago as he tried to seize another boy after offering him a ride home from school. The seven-year-old - who escaped unharmed - helped identify the culprit. The man’s victims were aged between three and seven. He was said to have lured them into his car as they left school at midday and then drove them to remote desert locations to rape them. An investigation was launched after a 25-year-old father reported that his three-year-old son was missing and that he suspected the kidnapper to be a male driver of a white four-wheel drive vehicle. The infant was later found under a scorching sun in the desert where he had died of thirst. A panel of three judges in Hail sentenced the rapist to death for “abhorrent” crimes which they said had terrorised the community. Crucifixion in the conservative desert Kingdom means tying the convict’s body to wooden beams to be displayed to the public after he is decapitated by a professional swordsman. Saudi Arabia has executed 56 people this year under laws that allow the death penalty for rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking. In extreme cases, the convict is executed and his body crucified in public.
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#16. To: Disgusted (#0)
In this particular case, I think rather than beheading him, a MUCH too merciful and quick death, they should skip the beheading and just let him hang on the crucifix until he dies of thirst, just like his 3-year old victim.
I have heard though not seen that in particularly gruesome or morally reprehensible circumstances, like this one for example, the judge will call for a certain number of sword strokes to be inflicted on the back of the condemned before the beheading. Haven't heard if this was ordered in this case. I was invited to go to one of these events, but was advised not to go because seeing this sort of thing upsets most folk's mental equilibrium. People that have witnessed beheadings say that they were generally disturbed for some time afterwards.
Interesting... OTOH, discreet preventative effects may have occured. I recall a story my grandfather told me. When he was a young man in the old country, the penalty for rape was public flogging in the town square. He witnessed such an event and he told me that he was certain that all males present would never ever entertain the idea of rape after seeing the swift and painful consequences up close. My grandfather felt that public spectacle and equitable pain for what the criminal gave his victim could function as a very effective crime deterrent - more so than airy fairy "rehabilitation" dogma that our modern day justice system promotes. I don't necessarily condone harsh consequences for crime. I am merely passing along an old man's views on how this type of justice prevented further acts of a certain crime in his village.
There's a lot to be said for deterence. For a young man who's only suffering the normal pangs of libido and has little or no moral upbringing, the pain and humiliation your grandfather's generation witnessed was probably sufficient to deter most. Compulsive murderers and pedophiles know what's coming to them eventually - especially in countries like Saudi Arabia. Nothing will stop these people but their own failure to cover up their deeds. By then, the damage has already been done.
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#20. To: FormerLurker (#16)
I think rather than beheading him, a MUCH too merciful and quick death,
#21. To: randge (#20)
People that have witnessed beheadings say that they were generally disturbed for some time afterwards.
#22. To: scrapper2 (#21)
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