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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/toddler-beheaded-in-supermarket/2008/03/04/1204402425563.html

A man reportedly held a knife to the throat of his 15-month-old nephew and decapitated him in front of his mother in a Saudi Arabian supermarket.

The 25-year-old Syrian man beheaded the toddler apparently after having a dispute with the toddler's parents, his sister and brother-in-law, Arab News reported.

Another newspaper, the Saudi Gazette, reported that the toddler was 18 months old.

The killing happened in front of shoppers and staff in the fruit and vegetable section of the Al-Marhaba supermarket yesterday morning.

A police officer told Arab News: "The murderer was in a dispute with the boy's mother and her husband. He chopped off the boy's head in front of the mother to get back at her."

Another witness, Abu Muhammad, who is in his mid-60s, told the paper: "It happened so quickly. Before people could intervene, the man had cut more than half way through the child's neck."

Another local expressed his disbelief that anyone could carry out such an act.

"No one could bear the gruesome sight of the boy's decapitated body lying on the floor," Muneer, a car mechanic, told Arab News.

"How could someone do such a thing?

"I just can't understand it ... I still can't believe it."

One shopper, Ahmed Abdul-Rahman, told the Saudi Gazette: "I was shopping when I heard a scream and saw people running toward the shop's pastry corner.

"When I arrived there, I couldn't believe what I saw.

"A headless body of a child lay on the floor and the head was lying nearby soaked in blood."

The man was arrested at the supermarket, reports AFP. Murder is punishable by death in the Islamic country, and the sentence is usually carried out by beheading.
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Why? :(
 
How ironic.

He beheads someone and everyone is shocked. And his punishment is beheading him. And everyone will be happy no doubt.
 
OMG , that's horrific :mad:

for once I will go along with whatever punishment this barbaric country dishes out
 
An ironic choice of punishment considering what the man has done.

Horrible crime though, quite sickening really.
 
Something not quite right about his train of thought, there. Someone with the capacity to do that to someone so young and unable to defend themselves out of spite for someone else should have most, if not all of their body parts removed.
 
Behead those who behead others? I don't agree. Two wrongs don't make a right - it just puts the state at the same level as the murderer.
 
That is bizarre to say the least, and disturbing in its entirety. I do wonder what must have been going through his mind.
 
scorza said:
Behead those who behead others? I don't agree. Two wrongs don't make a right - it just puts the state at the same level as the murderer.
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what's the difference to locking a man in a room till he dies?

Many would say, its more humane.
 
What's the point of this thread other than to fuel hatred towards a country already much maligned on this forum?
 
scorza said:
Behead those who behead others? I don't agree. Two wrongs don't make a right - it just puts the state at the same level as the murderer.
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I can see the reaction, but to say in one breath "ooh that's bad" and in the next breath "oh yeah it's fine" doesn't sit right with me. I'm sure life in a prison (with life meaning life) would be a better punishment. If he's killed then it's over and he doesn't have to live with his actions. Just my opinion.
 
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