# Saudi court upholds child rapist crucifixion ruling

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-court-upholds-child-rapist-crucifixion-ruling/516190>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 3, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-court-upholds-child-rapist-crucifixion-ruling/516190 "2009-11-03T19:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-court-upholds-child-rapist-crucifixion-ruling/516190/81 "2009-11-13T02:16:38Z")

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> [@Cesario](#):
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> Wouldn’t a general policy of not allowing posters to provide personal information be easier to enforce than one that only applies to known minors?
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Liability.

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**Author:** ![Cesario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Cesario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cesario)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-court-upholds-child-rapist-crucifixion-ruling/516190/82 "2009-11-13T02:21:59Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Liability.

Indeed, telling everyone not to post their information would help with liability issues too, since they can’t be sure who is or isn’t a minor without being told.

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**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-court-upholds-child-rapist-crucifixion-ruling/516190/83 "2009-11-16T03:27:02Z")

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> Capital punishment is wrong, always and everywhere. Doesn’t get much easier to comprehend than that.

While I do think that the system has a lot of flaws in it, (ie people who were framed, or data misinterpreted or whatever) even with THAT there are still many people who just cannot be rehabbed or are dangerous socio/psycho paths.

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