The Death Penalty

Last week, i had the worst nightmare, I still remember it vividly despite being famous for not remembering any dreams.

My younger brother who is in and out of prison all the time and who is in prison right now has been sentenced to three years last week, he was so relive to get the news as he was expecting the death penalty this time, not because he has killed anyone but because he has done multiply crimes through the years attacking people and that is considered to be punishable by death in the sharia law applied in Saudi Arabia based on this verse in the Quran .

{33} إِنَّمَا جَزَاءُ الَّذِينَ يُحَارِبُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَسَادًا أَنْ يُقَتَّلُوا أَوْ يُصَلَّبُوا أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُمْ مِنْ خِلَافٍ أَوْ يُنْفَوْا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ ذَلِكَ لَهُمْ خِزْيٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَلَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;"

He would be in the category of those "strive with might and main for mischief through the land" 

That day I got the worst nightmare that I could remember in my whole life, and like all my nightmares it happened in my grandfather building where we used to live.
There, the authority brought my brother in front of the house and the moment they took him out of the car they started killing him by the sword in front of my eyes, I couldn't stop screaming and yelling to my mom that they did it and for the first time I saw how helpless he was -and he is never but an aggressive young man-. I woke up shaking like never before. And till this day I can not forget the dream and the pain I felt in it and when I woke up.

I have talked many times here about my relationship with my brothers especially the younger one but this post is actually not about him. It's actually about death penalty in general.

In the previous years, I became more and more a huge believer of all peaceful movements and approaches towards all things happening in our life including  "the Death penalty".I am at least 90 % against it right now and for its halt everywhere in the world. "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" as Gandhi said and that violence has solved nothing.

To ask for the death penalty for a criminal won't bring those innocent ones back. And yes those killers are victims themselves, victim of the injustice they have been through their whole life. we are born innocent and pure, none of us born evil or good, it's what nurture and nature do to us that turn us to who we are.
How can we bring back the justice to someone who has been killed and tortured by killing those responsible for it whether we kill them by sword-my country's favorite way- or by hanging or guns. !!
In my country millions of dollars are collected all the time to save someone from the death penalty because the dead victim's family say the will forgive him if "such amount of time is paid" and that amount of time is always by  millions. How can a million or ten bring you the peace of mind and heart after losing your loved ones .
Nothing brings that peace but forgiveness .

From a religious point of view-and you probably know by now that i don't follow the steps of religion all the way-doesn't the Quran ask us to be forgiven and insist on that all the way ?

And from a mean person point of view, locking someone for life or twenty years is a greater way to make them suffer than killing them.

What surprises me in me is despite my believe in everything peaceful, I still gloat when someone evil is killed by the hero in movies and always look for excuses for the evil guy to be killed so innocent people would live happily.

But seriously how can people's lives be saved if bad guys are not killed such as the Syrian president right now ? "Wondering"