| A Saudi group awaits execution |
| Beheaded in Saudi Arabia |
Friends,
thank God, Jesus freed us from the old covenant of an eye for eye. I think we can justly punish guilty people without being so brutal.
I am reminded of what Jesus said, I have come not to condemn the world but to save the world.
SHARIA LAW: SURGICAL PARALYSIS ORDERED IN SAUDI ARABIA AS PUNISHMENT FOR TEENAGE ASSAULT
SPINE -FOR-A-SPINE [UNISHMENT HAS MOTHER 'frightened to death'
April 4, 2013 - Saudi police stand guard outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 7, 2007. - Ali Al-Khawahir, 24, is awaiting court-ordered surgical paralysis in Saudi Arabia for an assault he committed when he was 14 years old, according to news reports. Al-Khawahir has reportedly spent 10 years in prison since stabbing a friend in the spine during a fight. The wound left his friend paralyzed. The Saudi legal system allows eye-for-an-eye punishments. The convicted man's mother told Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat that the family is seeking help raising $270,000 in "blood money," which in Saudi Arabia can be requested by a crime's victim – or victim's family in cases of murder – in exchange for punishment.
April 4, 2013 - Saudi police stand guard outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 7, 2007. - Ali Al-Khawahir, 24, is awaiting court-ordered surgical paralysis in Saudi Arabia for an assault he committed when he was 14 years old, according to news reports. Al-Khawahir has reportedly spent 10 years in prison since stabbing a friend in the spine during a fight. The wound left his friend paralyzed. The Saudi legal system allows eye-for-an-eye punishments. The convicted man's mother told Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat that the family is seeking help raising $270,000 in "blood money," which in Saudi Arabia can be requested by a crime's victim – or victim's family in cases of murder – in exchange for punishment.
"We don't have even a tenth of this sum," she said, according to a translation by The Guardian.
"Ten years have passed with hundreds of sleepless nights," his mother told Al-Hayat, according to the English-language Saudi Gazette. "My hair has become grey at a young age because of my son's problem. I have been frightened to death whenever I think about my son's fate and that he will have to be paralyzed."
Amnesty International condemned the sentence as "outrageous" in a statement released this week. "Paralysing someone as punishment for a crime would be torture," said Ann Harrison, the organization's Middle East and North Africa deputy director. "That such a punishment might be implemented is utterly shocking."
Tooth extractions, said Amnesty, have also been ordered in Saudi Arabia.
Israeli news website Ynet reports that 13 years ago a Saudi hospital gouged out an Egyptian man's eye as punishment for an acid attack that injured another man. A similar sentence for an Indian man six years later was set aside after international outrage.
http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/04/04/surgical-paralysis-ordered-saudi-arabia-punishment-for-teenage-assault
The executions of seven Saudis sentenced to death by crucifixion and firing squad have been postponed for a week.
A Saudi security official said King Abdullah would review the sentences. He met families of the seven on Sunday.
The official said the ruler of the south-western province of Asir, Prince Faisal bin Abdel Aziz, had ordered the postponement.
The seven were juveniles at the time they were arrested for armed robbery, a capital offence in Saudi Arabia. One told Associated Press by telephone from prison that they were tortured to force them to confess and denied access to lawyers.
Human rights groups had called on the Saudi government to cancel the executions.
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