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Saudi judge considers paralysis punishment (AP)

August 19th, 2010

FILE - In this July 30, 2010 file photo, Saudi King Abdullah speaks at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon. Saudi Arabia enforces strict Islamic law and occasionally metes out punishments based on the ancient legal code of an eye-for-an-eye. However, King Abdullah has been trying to clamp down on extremist ideology. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)AP - A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man’s spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralyzing him, the brother of the victim said Thursday.


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