Saudi Arabia’s court of appeal on April 2024 approved death sentences for two Saudi men for protest-related crimes allegedly committed as children.
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Wait, Saudi Arabia executes fucking children?
Adults for crimes committed when they were children.
So they wait until they’re 18 to charge them?
That’s not meaningfully different! Also common in America.
Kind of. I’m not sure if it was specifically planned or just typical of courts being slow. In any case, the likely forced confessions shouldn’t be a reason to sentence anyone to death, especially for non-violent crimes. The death penalty should be abolished everywhere.
EDIT: Well, that’s a bad typo to make. It previously said “shouldn’t” instead of " should".
The death penalty shouldn’t be abolished everywhere.
The only case the death penalty seems socially useful is when it’s used for major white-collar crimes (eg, faking emissions, reducing testing for asbestos in talc products, reducing testing for listeria in baby formula, mass predatory lending resulting in millions of foreclosures, knowingly lying to promote war), since very few murders are doing cost-benefit analysis of murder, whereas these guys absolutely do consider potential consequences.
I meant should. I don’t think there are any scenarios where death penalty should exist. But I agree that financial crimes should be punished on the same or higher level than homicides, since the harm they do are exponentially higher.
