A Saudi Arabian executioner shows off his sword. Executioners are also required to perform amputations on those convicted of lesser offences.
Photograph: Magazine/Rex_Shutterstock
Still wondering why so many people want to immigrate to the US and to European countries. Even while expressing hatred toward Americans, and America. Why don't they want to go to Saudi Arabia or to El Salvador?
[From article]
The Islamic kingdom is in the top five countries in the world for putting people to death, rights groups say. It ranked third in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, according to Amnesty International figures.
A man beheaded on Sunday was the 85th person this year whose execution was recorded by the official Saudi Press Agency, compared to 88 in the whole of 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Amnesty said there were at least 90 executions last year.
Most were executed for murder, but 38 had committed drugs offences,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/saudi-arabia-advertises-eight-new-executioners-beheadings-soar
Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars
Jobs classified as ‘religious functionaries’ at lower end of civil service scale
85 reported executed so far this year, rivalling total for whole of 2014
Reuters in Riyadh
Monday 18 May 2015 12.00 EDT
Still wondering why so many people want to immigrate to the US and to European countries. Even while expressing hatred toward Americans, and America. Why don't they want to go to Saudi Arabia or to El Salvador?
[From article]
The Islamic kingdom is in the top five countries in the world for putting people to death, rights groups say. It ranked third in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, according to Amnesty International figures.
A man beheaded on Sunday was the 85th person this year whose execution was recorded by the official Saudi Press Agency, compared to 88 in the whole of 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Amnesty said there were at least 90 executions last year.
Most were executed for murder, but 38 had committed drugs offences,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/saudi-arabia-advertises-eight-new-executioners-beheadings-soar
Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars
Jobs classified as ‘religious functionaries’ at lower end of civil service scale
85 reported executed so far this year, rivalling total for whole of 2014
Reuters in Riyadh
Monday 18 May 2015 12.00 EDT
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