Get this: A man in Saudi Arabia is waiting for a sentence in which he is to be forcibly 'paralysed' as punishment for a crime which left his victim in a wheelchair.

The man, Ali al Khawaher, was 14 years old when he stabbed a friend in the spine, causing him to be paralysed from the waist down. He has been in jail for 10 years waiting to be paralysed too, and is now 24.

The punishment is to be carried out surgically, unless his family can cough out one million Saudi Riyals (about $271,206.00) to the family of his victim.

In Saudi Arabia, their form of Sharia law allows eye-for-eye punishment for crimes, however, victims are allowed to pardon offenders in exchange for monies paid, called blood money.

The sentence which was passed down in the eastern town of Al Ahsa, is called a qisa, which means retribution. . .

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