The Kelantan government is reportedly thinking about creating a ‘mini guillotine’ to punish offenders.
The Star’s Syed Azhar reports in an exclusive piece published yesterday that the state’s hudud law technical committee has found it difficult to find ‘suitable methods to amputate the limbs of those convicted of stealing’.
Therefore, the daily reported, the group has resorted to considering a contraption similar to the ones used during the French Revolution in the 1700s.
The report quoted the committee’s chairman Datuk Mohd Amar Abdullah – who is also deputy Mentri Besar of the Pas-led state- as saying that he would suggest that such a device be used in place of surgery.
“The surgeon must first agree to carry out the procedure but he is likely to face the wrath of the Malaysian Medical Association for violating the Hippocratic Oath,” he was quoted as saying.
He told The Star that this guillotine was ‘fast, effective and needed only one person to pull the lever, two others to hold down the offender and a doctor to ensure the punished person does not drastically suffer from the punishment’.
“I will make extensive studies on the method used during the French Revolution in the 18th century when guillotines were used to sever the heads of those sentenced to death,” Mohd Amar reportedly said.
