Posted on 11/01/2011 2:54:20 AM PDT by markomalley
Shocking footage has surfaced of a Sudanese man being publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for being a 'sorcerer'.
Crouched on his knees and blindfolded, Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki was executed in a car park Medina, in the west of the country, as dozens looked on last month.
The grainy footage - which MailOnline believes is too graphic to publish - shows the executioner lining his sword up on the back of Abdul Hamid's neck, before one swift stroke decapitates him.
The Sudanese man, who was killed on September 20, is believed to have been the 44th person executed in Saudi Arabia this year - and the 11th foreign national.
The total for 2011 is 17 more than for the whole of 2010.
Lebanese TV host Ali Hussain Sibat, who was sentenced to death over making predictions of the future on his show, had been scheduled to be beheaded on Friday.
His attorney May El Khansa said the execution did not take place on that day - but that did not mean Sibat has been given a reprieve.
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I didn’t know that. I did know that when they “chop” off hands they remove the hand in the hospital and bring the person to the square and symbolically chop it.
The crime was accepting $1600 for putting a curse on someone.
Geez, he sounds more like a con man not a sorcerer.
Splitting headache bump.
I agree with one of the comments on the daily mail website that is critical of Amnesty International portraying capital punishment as the problem. It’s not the problem, but applying it to non-crimes and offenses of a dubious nature is. We’ve got plenty here that could use a good head lopping.
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