Posted on 03/11/2013 1:35:22 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
Saudi Arabia has authorised regional governors to approve executions by firing squad as an alternative to public beheading, the customary method of capital punishment in the kingdom, the Arab News reported on Monday . The English-language daily gave no explanation.
But another newspaper, Al Youm, reporting the measure on Sunday, said the reason for the change was a shortage of swordsmen.
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"A shortage in sworsdmen and their unavailability in a number of areas" meant the executioners had to travel long distances sometimes to get to the place of executions, making them sometimes late, the newspaper reported the circular as saying.
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Chain saws are readily available and require very little training.
I guess my question then would be why?
It would be interesting to me to find out what characteristics define a "good swordsman".
I would guess that he would possibly have to be a large person..and have good aim. The rest, it seems to me would be up to the sword..is it heavy, and sharp, and fit for the particualar job at hand.
Maybe a swordsman would have to be kind of a mathematician, being able to calculate in his/her head the exact amount of speed the sword must be traveling to complete the given job.
Maybe the job of swordsman is so horrible that nobody in his right mind would do it, and maybe there's not that many lunatics in S arabia?////naaaahhhhh, can't be since everybody is a muzzie, and muzzies are notorious lunatics...so that can't be it.
There is something else causing the shortage..
..maybe we here at FR can come up with a solution to the problem of swordsman shortage in Saudi Arabia:
Could hire some golf professionals. They have a good slice.
“Could hire some golf professionals. They have a good slice.”
I don’t know that many golfers that swing overhand. Who’s on their olympic tennis team?
” Whos on their olympic tennis team?”
Dunno. Let me axe them.
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