Saudi court upholds child rapist crucifixion ruling
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.
I’ve no philosophical objection to the death penalty, and raping children and leaving them to die in the desert qualifies for it so far as I’m concerned. I’m out of confidence, though, that the American judicial system can be trusted to correctly identify criminals with the certainty appropriate to an irrevocable penalty. For that reason I support the call for a nationwide moratorium on carrying-out the death penalty. It should not be resumed except in cases where two blind and separate laboratory tests of DNA evidence dispositively connect the defendant to the crime.
Is the Saudi defendant guilty? Beats me. If he is, then I’ve no problem with executing him. Beheading him publicly, though, and displaying his corpse on a crucifix, smacks too much of a fair; it’s a grave business which ought to be done somberly.
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