Today, “Okaz” learned that a death sentence had been issued for a death penalty against a citizen who set his friend on fire and caused his death in a famous case in Jeddah.
Justice sources confirmed to Okaz that the Department of Retribution and Borders in the Criminal Court in Jeddah issued its ruling by a circuit of 3 judges, and granted the parties the right to object within 30 days before the Court of Appeal.
At the end of last December, the Jeddah Police arrested a citizen for setting fire to a vehicle, which led to the death of its driver from burns, following a previous dispute between them, and the incident was reported on social media platforms at the time.
And he explained to “Okaz” the former judge in the Jeddah Criminal Court, Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Al-Ghamdi, that there is confusion between killing as a punishment or punishment or retribution for many, so retribution from the jurisprudential point of view is the reward of the offender with the same act he did, while the hadd punishment is a legally determined punishment that may not be dropped when the conditions for its implementation are met. There was no resemblance to it. As for discretionary punishment, it is an unappreciated punishment in disobedience that has no punishment or atonement.
And he added: «The offender may kill in retribution, a punishment or a punishment, whether with a sword or bullets. When the offender kills a person and is sentenced to death after the conditions are met, he is sentenced to death in retribution, and when another offender, for example, cuts off the road to take money or assassinates someone, his action is treated as a chastisement and is judged. He has to kill for that act, killing him here is a punishment, because the robbery is one of the legal punishments and its punishment is determined by Sharia, and when the perpetrator smuggles drugs and this crime is proven against him and he is sentenced to death, then killing him here is a ta’zir, and the punishment for killing the smuggler is seen by the guardian to cut off the backbone of drugs and the devastating effects it causes ».
Sheikh Al-Ghamdi concluded his comment to “Okaz”, explaining: “There is a difference between these types, in that the one who is sentenced to death in retribution, no one can pardon him except the heirs of blood, and the one who is sentenced to death by ta’zir, no one can pardon him except the guardian, while the one who is sentenced to death does not have the right.” No one is pardoned because it is an estimated hudud punishment.”
