A judge in Saudi Arabia has asked at least two hospitals if they will intentionally sever a man’s spinal cord as punishment for his crime of crippling another man with a meat cleaver. The culprit already was convicted for the attack and served seven months of a 14-month sentence before being released. The victim, Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, then asked Judge Saoud bin Suleiman al-Youssef in Tabuk province to impose Qisas (retaliation) punishment, which means an eye for an eye—literally—on his assailant, who now works as a school teacher.