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Pakistan to hang paralysed man whilst he is in his wheelchair
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"Pakistan is planning to execute a paraplegic man by hanging him while he remains seated in his wheelchair - the first case of its kind in the country.
Abdul Basit, 43, was convicted of murder in 2009 but a bout of tuberculosis while detained in Faisalabad Prison the following year which left him paralysed from the waist down.
Following Pakistan's decision to lift its moratorium on executions in the wake of the Peshawar massacre last December, Basit has moved to the front of the queue to be killed - sparking furious debate over the legal, ethical and even practical implications of his execution."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3204936/Pakistan-plans-execute-severely-disabled-man-hanging-death-remains-seated-wheelchair.html#ixzz3jNXAEQGH
As a disabled man I don't think this is right.. It just seems barbaric to execute a disabled person. Why do they have to kill him? Why can't he spend the rest of his life in jail instead?
Do you agree with this decision and believe people should be executed regardless of any disability or do you agree with me it doesn't feel the moral thing to do?
Abdul Basit, 43, was convicted of murder in 2009 but a bout of tuberculosis while detained in Faisalabad Prison the following year which left him paralysed from the waist down.
Following Pakistan's decision to lift its moratorium on executions in the wake of the Peshawar massacre last December, Basit has moved to the front of the queue to be killed - sparking furious debate over the legal, ethical and even practical implications of his execution."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3204936/Pakistan-plans-execute-severely-disabled-man-hanging-death-remains-seated-wheelchair.html#ixzz3jNXAEQGH
As a disabled man I don't think this is right.. It just seems barbaric to execute a disabled person. Why do they have to kill him? Why can't he spend the rest of his life in jail instead?
Do you agree with this decision and believe people should be executed regardless of any disability or do you agree with me it doesn't feel the moral thing to do?
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He still did the crime.
You said it yourself in your post: "Abdul Basit, 43, was convicted of murder".
If capital punishment is the norm for murderers in one country, then unless he has a learning disorder, he shouldn't be excepted if he was sentenced to die in said country.
correct, a true "equal opportunity" to face justice
That would be because:
I disagree with the DP in general, but in countries where they have it, I don't think a person should be exempted because they're disabled, especially when, as in this case, the disability occurred well after the crime and sentencing.
Quite. I am anti capital punishment but can't get my head around why someone would be for it except where the person is disabled...
In an ideal world, people wouldn't commit violent and malicious crimes.
I don't agree with you.
Totally agree, his physical disability shouldn't come into it.
Naughty!
So if a load of wheelchair bound warriors ram-raided our local Morrisons tonight we should all help them home with their swag...that sort of thing do you mean?
Can you imagine if it happened here the European Commission for Human Rights would be up in arms.
Are you otherwise pro death penalty?
Are you seriously saying that a physically disabled person should face lower penalties than normal people when they commit crimes?