Not just executions, but public ones. Necessary? Humiliating for families? A lesson?
I’m not sure if it really makes a difference. So why not just do what you have to do instead of involving the whole world.
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Apart from what it has to do in relevence with the religious implications... like its this way in KSA and maybe in other Islamic countries too.... I wouldnt find it pleasing much, on personal level. But well, if there is a controversy of Islam versus pure, secular Humanism, its Islam that wins finally.
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depends on the nature of the crime... I can't help resist thinking about harsh public execution being warranted for certain types of serious crimes especially those that affect the society at large and if the perpetrator was a repeat offender - e.g. I have no sympathy for rapists, and child molesters.
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I consider it a form of terrorism.
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Question: Does public executing in Iran/Saudia have any change on society?
Answer: NO !
Welcome to 21st century !
depends on the nature of the crime... I can't help resist thinking about harsh public execution being warranted for certain types of serious crimes especially those that affect the society at large and if the perpetrator was a repeat offender - e.g. I have no sympathy for rapists, and child molesters.
Ditto.
Public executions have phenomenal psychological impact on us - of course, they're unpleasant but they make an example out of a transgressor. Although completely socially unfamiliar for us today, I think they might do some good tbh.
I consider it a form of terrorism.
How?
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^ watch some videos
bing & google video keyword: taliban head chopping, pakistani soldiers without heads, mullahs dance on blood..
will help you understand how its talbanic !
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Saudi, right - of course. But still I'd say public punishments definitely have an impact on Saudis - I am sure people think a million times before stealing for the fear of losing their hand.
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oh c'mon I'm not talking about Taliban style death by verdict of a panel that practices its own distorted version of Islam.
In normal circumstances, I might even side with those who are against capital punishment, but there's a certain class of despicable crimes which when proven diligently to have been the act of a specific perpetrator, that person deserves no sympathy. I've already given examples of serial rapists and child molesters who show no remorse.
Having said that, I also believe in Kant's categorical imperative - i.e. if an act isn't right for everyone, then it isn't right for anyone. So in that sense, I guess I have to be less arbitrary in my viewpoint.
Provide your special insight, why every year the chopping off heads / cutting hands is on increase??? 
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Public executions brings about closure to the families and communities that may have been effected by the criminal's act. To see the offender die right before your eyes assures them that they are no longer going to hurt them or their loved ones.
very predictable of you
how did you come to that conclusion. KSA has one of the least crime rates and there was a time when ppl would leave their gold shops open and go for prayer, its all been documented and you can find heaps abt it on your fav site, come on man i wasnt expecting this bongy post from you atleast!
population growth !
it would be better to talk in percentage and compare it with rest of the world.
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necessary evil.....
to some degree.
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I guess it is to act as a deterrence for all. Just like the punishments on hudood offences in Islam; the punishments may be harsh but they were so, in order to act as a deterrence and were not intended to be used freely.
Whilst it may bring comfort for the victim/s and others affected by the crime what about those that will get affected by the execution? Is it not a vicious circle to some extent? Can we honestly get true comfort within ourselves or do we convince ourselves that a crime has been punished fittingly?
At the most if victims and the those affected by the crime want to witness the execution that is fine. That is their choice but why subject the rest of the world to it?
Makkah & Madina is just a take granted for Al-Saud the current regime … and that’s where people leave their shops opne.
Crime rate in Saudia,.. hum kitney masoom hain, that’s all i wanna say 
I can figure it too genius, but why crime rate get lower in every developed country after world war 2 even after the population explosion ??? …
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What a dumb question OP has asked....
oh wait...I just read some replies....now I know why. My bad.
^ watch some videos
bing & google video keyword: taliban head chopping, pakistani soldiers without heads, mullahs dance on blood..
will help you understand how its talbanic !
COmeon, not those pseudu videos forsure, and even those uploaded on net. What an unauthentic source. And especially the phrase... mullahs dance on blood? lolz, sounds much like a cannibalistic shot. What the above post helped me understand, atleast, is how negatively we are always bent upon finding faults with one particular sect which unfortunately connects itself, (and so does the rest of the world, more or less) with Islam. I mean, Im NOT a PRO-TALIBAN, but atleast i believe in truth and not dramatization. Such a drama loving nation we are. Aint we?
Question: Does public executing in Iran/Saudia have any change on society? Answer: NO !
Welcome to 21st century !
Stepping out of one's prejudiced comfortzone, if it be bothered, can be observed that the crime rate in KSA is ofcourse low and not as high as it is there world wide, and it is natural. If not all, atleast some do learn by the faults of others. ANd aboveall once when its Allah's commandment, who can dare reject it and create their own rules and regulations regarding does and donts.
Talking about the 21st century, what good is it up to?
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^ Talking about the 21st, this communicating going is coz of it.
On the other hand if we was keep going with pyscho mullahs we should be sitting next to camels.. and farting in the middle of no where..
hell ya !
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Gain to the society because of public executions go unnoticed, does not mean that society does not gain from it.
But before we support public executions, the only time public executions add value to the social system is when the justice system they result out of, is a real justice system and not a half cooked legal mumbo jumbo that someone or a group pulled out of thin air