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Saudi Arabia on course for a record number of executions including public beheadings in 2019 despite claims kingdom is ‘modernizing.’
The sand castle kingdom has already reportedly 43 people in the first three months of this year – the most recent being a Syrian man who was put to death on March 13 for smuggling amphetamine pills, a capital crime and one obviously not worth losing your head over.
And if this rate continues, 172 Muslim miscreants of sharia law will have been put to death by the end of the year, it was reported.
The record for the number of executions carried out by Saudi Arabia was 158, according to human rights advocates Amnesty International, but it's looking good for record enthusiasts as it looks like this record will fall, much like the heads of those who help set it.
Of those murdered legally by the sharia compliant government this year, 21 were reportedly for drugs offenses.
But other crimes which carry the death penalty include adultery, renouncing the mafia-like religion of Islam, treason, espionage, burglary as well as murder, terrorism, rape or espionage.
Burglary? If that includes being handed too much change after a cash transaction, half my family would be dead.
Beheading remains the most common form of execution and the sentence traditionally carried out in a public square on a Friday after prayers for the entertainment of the public and to show them just how seriously the government takes Islamic law.
Deera Square in the centre of the capital Riyadh is known locally as "Chop Chop Square.”
Figures from anti-death penalty campaigners Reprieve, showed that executions doubled in Saudi Arabia under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Beheading remains the most common form of execution and the sentence traditionally carried out in a public square on a Friday after prayers for the entertainment of the public and to show them just how seriously the government takes Islamic law.
Deera Square in the centre of the capital Riyadh is known locally as "Chop Chop Square.”
Figures from anti-death penalty campaigners Reprieve, showed that executions doubled in Saudi Arabia under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
[I have always said that you must be wary of people with a 'bin' before their last name.]
Bin Salman is the country's effective ruler and the driving force behind liberal reforms in nation, including allowing women to drive. But if they get into even a minor fender-bender, they can lose more than just their license, if you know what I mean.
The number of believers put to death between June 2017 – when he came to power – and March 2018 was 133, compared to just 67 in the preceding eight months before he was installed. His motto is: "When I'm in charge, heads will roll."
Nearly 40 percent of those executed last year were convicted of drugs offenses, with 77 percent of them being foreign nationals.
In October the execution of Tuti Tursilawati, an Indonesian maid, without either her family or the Indonesian authorities even being told led to worldwide condemnation.
She was found guilty in June 2011 of killing her Saudi slave master, but claimed she had acted in self-defense after he tried to rape her.
Despite an upward trend in the number of executions since 2000, Saudi Arabia is still in third place behind China and Iran, where between 249 and 285 people were executed in 2018. In 4th and 5th place are Iraq and Pakistan, but bin Salman is hopeful that this year his country will take the trophy for most executions.
Bin Salman is the country's effective ruler and the driving force behind liberal reforms in nation, including allowing women to drive. But if they get into even a minor fender-bender, they can lose more than just their license, if you know what I mean.
The number of believers put to death between June 2017 – when he came to power – and March 2018 was 133, compared to just 67 in the preceding eight months before he was installed. His motto is: "When I'm in charge, heads will roll."
Nearly 40 percent of those executed last year were convicted of drugs offenses, with 77 percent of them being foreign nationals.
In October the execution of Tuti Tursilawati, an Indonesian maid, without either her family or the Indonesian authorities even being told led to worldwide condemnation.
She was found guilty in June 2011 of killing her Saudi slave master, but claimed she had acted in self-defense after he tried to rape her.
Despite an upward trend in the number of executions since 2000, Saudi Arabia is still in third place behind China and Iran, where between 249 and 285 people were executed in 2018. In 4th and 5th place are Iraq and Pakistan, but bin Salman is hopeful that this year his country will take the trophy for most executions.
"It's just so hard with all those millions of Chinese people doing bad things. But, Inshallah, I will make beheadings great again!" bin Salman said. "We will be number one."
Saudi Arabia’s largest mass execution was in 1980 when 63 rebels were put to death for seizing Mecca’s Grand Mosque. You don't blow your nose in Superman's cape or mess with a mosque in Saudi Arabia.
In 2015 the authorities in Riyadh advertised for eight new executioners because it couldn’t keep up with the rising number of death sentences. Although it's a thankless job, there were plenty of takers.
The ad asked for no specific skills but said the job included “executing a judgment of death.” In other words, doing Allah's work.
Over the years there have been reports of the bizarre and barbaric punishments handed down in Saudi Arabia. The country has no written penal code and no code of criminal procedure and judicial procedure. They kind of "wing it" and use sharia law which has been barbaric since 652.
The list of punishments makes for grim reading and there have been reports of people being sentenced to crucifixion, amputation, eye-gouging, paralysis, stoning and a flogging. Currently, the Saudis are considering using: a hundred kicks in the balls, soldering closed the urinary meatus, pouring boiling pablum on the pudenda of female offenders, and giving excruciating Indian burns to offenders before beheading them.
I hope you'll follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.
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Saudi Arabia’s largest mass execution was in 1980 when 63 rebels were put to death for seizing Mecca’s Grand Mosque. You don't blow your nose in Superman's cape or mess with a mosque in Saudi Arabia.
In 2015 the authorities in Riyadh advertised for eight new executioners because it couldn’t keep up with the rising number of death sentences. Although it's a thankless job, there were plenty of takers.
The ad asked for no specific skills but said the job included “executing a judgment of death.” In other words, doing Allah's work.
Over the years there have been reports of the bizarre and barbaric punishments handed down in Saudi Arabia. The country has no written penal code and no code of criminal procedure and judicial procedure. They kind of "wing it" and use sharia law which has been barbaric since 652.
The list of punishments makes for grim reading and there have been reports of people being sentenced to crucifixion, amputation, eye-gouging, paralysis, stoning and a flogging. Currently, the Saudis are considering using: a hundred kicks in the balls, soldering closed the urinary meatus, pouring boiling pablum on the pudenda of female offenders, and giving excruciating Indian burns to offenders before beheading them.
I hope you'll follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.
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