When governments sanction cruel and unusual punishments out of a sense of revenge, as opposed to impersonal and efficient justice or retribution, it's a big fucking problem.
The thing is, where do you draw the line between retribution and revenge? What's justice to one might be cruel to another, it's all dependant on your perception
General rule of thumb is that if you can't justify doing the same or similar to everyone who commits a similar crime, then don't do it to any.
It'd be great if she did it herself and got away with it, but the government issuing and carrying out this punishment is a very bad sign for civil liberties.
And how is just 20 drops the same and getting acid thrown over her entire face. Admittedly, I doubt he'll be able to do it again since he will be blind, but I agree, given the problem they are having with these kind of acid attacks there should be a set punishment and I think it should be either life imprisonment or death. Obviously someone unhinged enough to douse another person with acid over a refusal isn't someone who needs to be free in society
Exactly. But it's a bad sign that cruel and unusual punishment the route they decided to go. Either kill him or lock him away, court sanctioned torture should not be accepted.
100% with @famousone on this. Government administered punishment is supposed to be painless and prisons are supposed to be about rehabilitation, not punishment. The idea, as I've said before, is that the government is supposed to always take the moral high ground. You go eye for an eye and the government is now just as vindictive as a human.
So I checked and apparently I was wrong. While this case is fake, it seems that there has been one such case of retaliation by the courts. However it has many intricate details since you can't exactly recreate the injuries, the Islamic Law cannot be done easily. While it is done for murder all the time.
It'd be great if she did it herself and got away with it, but the government issuing and carrying out this punishment is a very bad sign for civil liberties.