Saudi Arabic Advances Out Of The Stone Age

But doesn't quite rise to the humanity and civility of the Spanish Inquisition.

Saudi media are reporting that a judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man's spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralyzing him.

Saudi Arabia enforces Islamic law and on occasion metes out punishments based on the ancient code of an eye-for-an-eye.