Beheadings Saudi Arabia

SHOPPING FOR HEAD CHOPPERS: SAUDI ARABIA HAS TO KEEP UP WITH SUPPLY AND DEMAND…….

Saudi Arabia, a place where one can still visit the 7th century and not be in a museum.

I’m sure they can find more than enough applicants in the Islamic State, send all resumes to White Beard, he’ll divide the wheat from the chaff and send them on to Riad.

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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

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Saudi Arabia is ranked third in the world for executions, behind China and Iran. People are usually put to death by public beheading with a sword. Photograph: Sebastian Meyer/Getty Images

Saudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading.

No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role is “executing a judgment of death” but also involve performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences, the advert, posted on the civil service jobs portal, said.

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, HRW said. About half were Saudi and the others were from Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, India, Indonesia, Burma, Chad, Eritrea the Philippines and Sudan.

Saudi authorities have not said why the number of executions has increased so rapidly, but diplomats have speculated it may be because more judges have been appointed, allowing a backlog of appeal cases to be heard.

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