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Later, he reversed 492 of those 529 death sentences, commuting most of them to life in prison. Egyptian law requires that death sentences be confirmed by the presiding judge after reviewing the opinion of the Grand Mufti of Egypt, the country's leading official legal expert on religious matters. The Mufti's opinion to the judge is confidential.
An Ancient Persian method of execution in which the condemned was placed in between two boats, force-fed a mixture of milk and honey, and left floating in a stagnant pond. The victim would then suffer from severe diarrhoea, which would attract insects that would burrow and nest in the victim, eventually causing death from sepsis. Of disputed ...
According to a poll by the PewResearchCenter in 2010, 84 percent of all Egyptian Muslims polled supported the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion. [67] Human Rights Watch also mentions strict laws against insulting Islam, Christianity or Judaism and detention for unorthodox sects of Islam, such as Ahmadiyya. [68]
The Egyptian Penal Code (Arabic: قانون العقوبات المصري) is the governing body which determines the provisions related to criminal law, criminal acts, and punishment in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Under the 2014 Constitution, Article 94, Egypt is established as a state ruled by the law.
"Intact burials are frequently very poor ones, the ancient plunderers having known well that they were not worth the trouble of investigation." [7] Tomb-robbing was a common feature in the Ancient World, and was very common in Egypt in particular: "it is a sad fact that the vast majority of ancient Egyptian tombs have been plundered in antiquity."
The death penalty is contrary to the meaning of humanitas and to divine mercy, which must be models for human justice. It entails cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, as is the anguish before the moment of execution and the terrible suspense between the issuing of the sentence and the execution of the penalty, a form of “torture” which ...
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Translated by David Lorton. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-4241-9; D'Auria, S (et al.) Mummies and Magic: the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989. ISBN 0-87846-307-0; Faulkner, Raymond O; Andrews, Carol (editor), The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. University of Texas ...
The central panel portrays the Hindu god Yama judges the dead. Other panels depict various realms/hells of Naraka.. Judgement in an afterlife, in which one's deeds and characteristics in life determine either punishment or reward, is a central theme of many religions.