was an early attempt at stating that punishments for crimes should be
proportionate and therefore defined the maximum, not usual punishment that
should be inflicted on the culprit.
Whereas I have huge sympathy for the woman involved both for the blindness
inflicted on her but even more so in that society for the disfigurement that
must almost inevitably have resulted from the attack on her this retribution
seems to me to be utterly barbaric.
Far better to make the bastard and his family provide her with financial
support for the rest of her life to mitigate the consequences of his crime.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/iran-blind-criminal-acid
John Waghorne
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