Sumpah Laknat.

When God put Man on this Earth as khalifah or vicegerent, He wants Man to take care of Earth and its residents, humans and animals and the environment.

One of these duties is to ensure justice to victims of crimes through the rule of law. God does not want Man to refer to Him every time a crime occurs. God gives Man intelligence to investigate, the power of logic to deduce and infer from available evidence in order to bring criminals to justice.

Imagine a world where every time a criminal is accused of a crime, he can get away from worldly punishment simply by uttering a so called Sumpah Laknat, whereby he says he will be doomed to eternal torment by God if he does indeed do the crimes.

That may be so, but if we employ this procedure to resolve all crimes, leaving everything to God to exact retribution in the Hereafter, then what is the point of God appointing Man as his vicegerent?

For those of you who says that the perpetrators of crimes will not escape God's justice in the Hereafter, just because he utters Sumpah Laknat, and that we should treat the person as if he is innocent just because of that Sumpah, then you have a serious case of delusions. God's justice, wherever or whenever it is meted out, belongs to God.

On the other hand, justice on this Earth is a human responsibility and a right of the victim. It is the responsibility of the living to "avenge" the dead according to the rule of law. Otherwise, there is no point in God making Man vicegerent or khalifah on this Earth.

So, I do not know about you.
But I give zero weight to the Sumpah Laknat utters by any person accused of any crime.
(A murderer who murders can just as easily lies, even to God. He already destroys God's trust in him as vicegerent by murdering one of God's creation, another human being. It will be easy then to destroys God's trust by lying.)

I will rely on the evidence and hope that justice will be served, here and now on this Earth.