{"id":8918,"date":"2013-03-16T06:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T06:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/capital-punishment-from-one-extreme-to-another\/"},"modified":"2013-03-16T06:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T06:43:01","slug":"capital-punishment-from-one-extreme-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/capital-punishment-from-one-extreme-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Punishment: From One Extreme to Another"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia <\/a>\u2014 Seven Saudi men convicted of theft, looting and armed robbery were executed on Wednesday, according to the country's official news agency, more than a week after their families and a rights group appealed to the king for clemency.<\/span><\/p>\n

The executions took place in Abha, a city in the southern region of Asir, the Saudi Press Agency said. A resident who witnessed the execution said the seven were shot dead by a firing squad, a first in the kingdom, which traditionally has beheaded convicts sentenced to death. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The original sentences called for death by firing squad and crucifixion.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's the one extreme, justice Sharia-style.  Here is the other, justice liberal-style, if you want to call it 'justice':<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amnesty International called the executions an "act of sheer brutality."<\/span><\/p>\n

"We are outraged by the execution of seven men in Saudi Arabia this morning. We oppose the death penalty in all circumstances<\/strong>, but this case has been particularly shocking," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa director. (emphasis added)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I say that what we have here are equal but opposite forms of moral insanity.  That Sharia is morally insane needs no argument.  But anyone who opposes the death penalty in all circumstances<\/strong> is equally morally obtuse and has no conception of justice at all.  I argue this in detail in my Crime and Punishment<\/a> category and I won't repeat myself here.  In any case, argument with the morally obtuse is pointless since their lack of sound moral sense prevents them from accepting the premises from which alone one can fruitfully argue.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arguing with the morally obtuse about moral matters is like arguing with the empirically uninformed about empirical matters<\/span><\/p>\n

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2014 Seven Saudi men convicted of theft, looting and armed robbery were executed on Wednesday, according to the country's official news agency, more than a week after their families and a rights group appealed to the king for clemency. The executions took place in Abha, a city in the southern region of … Continue reading “Capital Punishment: From One Extreme to Another”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}