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Originally Posted by Paul M
Yes. If his punishment is to be hanged, then why flog and stab him first. In fact, why did they stab him at all ?.
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Those punishments (stabbing, and the woman slapping him, and putting the noose round his neck) are largely symbolic... To let help the victims' families achieve some kind of closure that they wouldn't feel if he went to a nice prison for the rest of his life. The lashes are just help deter people from it and make a bit of a public spectical of it all.
I'd like to think those kind of punishments would work, but I am not sure somehow... I mean people in Iran must know this is what will happen to them, yet they still think they can get away with it? What can you do really? Lashing the b*****d, sorry, convict, until he stops kicking might be one way, but although it might satistify some, i'm not sure it will deter anyone... What can you do really?
I do like the idea of the symbolic punishments though. We are all different, and while some here think they'd get over it with imprisonment, not everyone can deal with so easily.