A 'spine-for-a spine'

[thundley4]

A 'spine-for-a spine': Saudi criminal faces having spinal cord severed after paralysing victim with meat cleaver

A Saudi man convicted of paralysing a fellow countryman in a cleaver attack is being threatened with having his spinal cord cut in a tit-for-tat punishment.

The ultra-conservative desert Kingdom enforces Islamic law and on rare occasions metes out punishments based on the ancient code of an ‘eye-for-an-eye’.

The case judge in the northwestern province of Tabuk has sent letters to several hospitals seeking their advice on whether it is medically possible to render the attacker’s spinal cord non-functional, local newspapers said.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1304497/Saudi-man-paralysed-countryman-cleaver-faces-having-spinal-cord-severed-eye-eye-punishment.html#ixzz0x6IstTcx

I'm pretty sure that it could be done. Although I do think the person should be given the choice of this or the death penalty. If this is done it will make him a burden on his family or society.

[formerlurker]

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Don Corleone: That is not justice. Your daughter is alive.
Bonasera: Let them suffer then as she suffers.
[the Don is silent]
Bonasera: How much shall I pay you?
[the Don turns away dismissively, but Bonasera stays on]
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[He places his hand around Bonasera in a paternal gesture]
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[a gratified Bonasera offers his thanks and leaves]
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