Posted on 01/01/2005 6:23:15 PM PST by FrozenCavemanLawyer
Saudi executed and crucified Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabian authorities Friday beheaded and crucified a Saudi national convicted of killing and robbing his mother. The Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement that said the convict was executed and crucified in public in the southern province of Baha. Friday's beheading brought to 34 the number of people executed this year in Saudi Arabia, mostly smugglers. Earlier this month an Iraqi and three Pakistani drug smugglers were beheaded in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Executions of people convicted of murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking are conducted in public, in line with Shariah, the legal code of Islam, which is applied in the conservative Muslim kingdom. Some 52 people, including expatriates, were executed in Saudi Arabia in 2003.
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You can't rob your mother, but it's ok to kill or behead Americans. Am I right so far?
Probably the Saudi justice system should be brought to California - the backlog on Death Row would certainly be cleared out a lot faster.
And that may not be as far-fetched as some may think. As the Anglos and even the Hispanics are driven or priced out, the new exodus from the Middle East shall come crowding in, and that will have the effect of changing the administration of police and civil functions to Shar'ia law.
[Crickets]
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And even better question would be: "Have these people ever heard of something called the Geneva Convention?"
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
The public display after execution is normally reserved for people who do really henious crimes
Killing your mama qualifies
Oliver Cromwell was hanged, beheaded and gibbeted two years after he died.
The nails don't go through the head. You don't need a head, just arms and legs to crucify a body. It seems like a classic case of 'overkill', but that's the Saudis.
But the WHY ... that's the salient point.
You behead someone as a quick method of execution. You crucify someone as a slow means of execution. It seems that the two means of execution are at loggerheads here.
Of course, this is Islam we're talking about here so logic takes a holiday.
I see that "display" is the operative word.
Maybe we should try this technique in Fallujah or Mosul? Maybe Samatra too?
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I wonder if they plop the head back on top of the body for the display, or do they just nail up the body and have the head on a pike nearby?
This is in the Washington Times????!!!???
The Saudis are not convervatives....they're radicals.
if only we could be seeing this headline pertaining
to Saddam Hussein , it's about what he deserves.
I think that the only way they'll ever wake up is when-not if-a prominent member of the royal family is eliminated by one of these Koran-thumping lunatics.
I'd say it's overkill but I hear tomorrow he'll be diced and pureed and the remains thrown to the dogs, and his head used for a bowling ball. /;)
Not a very big one either. It looks like an officer's dress sword - like the Mameluke sword the Marines use.
The executioner wields it one handed
It must be very very sharp
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