Saudi rapist and murderer to be beheaded and crucified.

A man who kidnapped and raped five children, one of whom was left in the desert to die, has been sentenced to be beheaded and his body publicly crucified.

Muhammed Basheer al-Ramaly, 22, from the northern city of Hail, will be executed at noon today, according to Saudi reports. He will be beheaded by sword then his body tied to a wooden cross and his head stuck on a pole as a deterrent to other would-be killers.

Al-Ramaly was found guilty in February of abducting and raping five boys, the eldest of whom was 7 and the youngest, 3, whom he left in the desert to die.

His modus operandi was to pick up the boys in his car — at least one of them on his way to school — and take them off to a secret location and rape them. Most of them were found a day or two after they were abducted and told police that they had been abused.

Saudi reports said that police used one of the survivors, a seven-year-old boy believed to be of Yemeni origin, to scour the area where he was molested, looking for the suspect’s vehicle. Al-Ramaly allegedly confessed to the crime and was sentenced to death by a court in Hail, but appealed to a higher court in the capital, Riyadh. That court yesterday upheld the sentence and ordered his immediate execution.

While Saudi Arabia carries out numerous beheadings – 102 last year, according to Amnesty International, with another 138 inmates on death row – crucifixions are relatively rare. The last one appears to have been in May, when the headless body of a sex murderer was displayed in the capital.

Amnesty said there were reports that al-Ramaly may have been suffering from a psychological disorder. One Saudi web forum reported that police had been surprised when he laughed as he confessed to the rapes and murder.

Saudi Arabia has come under fire from human rights groups in the past for its high number of executions, which are carried out in public and include women and people convicted when under the age of 18. About half of the 1,695 executed in Saudi Arabia between 1985 and 2008 were foreign workers unable to pay the blood money that relatives of murder victims can demand in lieu of the death penalty, according to Amnesty.

간단히 해석하자면..

사우디아라비아에서 어린이 5명을 납치하고 그중 한명을 살해한 남자가 참수형을 당했다.
3일 정오에 나무에 묶여서 참수당했는데 그 몸뚱이는 나무에 매달리고 머리는 장대에 꽃아 두었다.
3~7세 어린이 5명을 성폭행했는데 그중 한명은 사막에 내버려둬서 사망했다. 피해자중에 한명이 범행현장과 차량을 기억해서 검거할 수 있었다.
1심에서 사형선고를 받고 항소했으나 고등법원에서는 사형을 확정하고 다음날 사형 집행했다.

부모된 입장에서는 당연히, 무조건 찬성.
더불어 그 목을 피해자의 부모가 직접 칠 수 있었으면.
가해자의 인권만 보호받고 피해자의 인권은 무시되는 현실.


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