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Saudi beheadings soar in 2015 under discretionary rulings
Associated Press ^ | Jan. 1, 2016 9:24 AM EST | Aya Batrawy

Posted on 01/01/2016 2:47:06 PM PST by Olog-hai

Saudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, with beheadings reaching their highest level in the kingdom in two decades, according to several advocacy groups that monitor the death penalty worldwide.

Coinciding with the rise in executions is the number of people executed for non-lethal offenses that judges have wide discretion to rule on, particularly for drug-related crimes.

Rights group Amnesty International said in November that at least 63 people had been executed since the start of the year for drug-related offenses. That figure made for at least 40 percent of the total number of executions in 2015, compared to less than four percent for drug-related executions in 2010. Amnesty said Saudi Arabia had exceeded its highest level of executions since 1995, when 192 executions were recorded.

But while most crimes, such as premeditated murder, may carry fixed punishments under Saudi Arabia's interpretation of the Islamic law, or Shariah, drug-related offenses are considered "ta'zir", meaning neither the crime nor the punishment is defined in Islam. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beheadings; rop; saudiarabia; sharia

1 posted on 01/01/2016 2:47:06 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Amnesty International is a government funded propaganda dissemination organization.


2 posted on 01/01/2016 2:49:32 PM PST by MrEdd (Hewck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Olog-hai; glock rocks; Old Sarge; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; freeangel; kalee; TWhiteBear; ...

3 posted on 01/01/2016 2:50:45 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Olog-hai
Here's a volunteer bowing before his king.....


4 posted on 01/01/2016 2:51:05 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Olog-hai

Typical head-chopping-happy moozlums...chop, chop, chop. I’d say their culture leaves a lot to be desired.

Typical moozlum conversation: Mom: Let’s go down to the square with the kiddies to see heads getting lopped off. Dad: Only after i beat you in front of the kids.


5 posted on 01/01/2016 2:51:18 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Iron Munro

Knob polishing?


6 posted on 01/01/2016 2:53:52 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Iron Munro
Circle Jerk?
7 posted on 01/01/2016 2:54:34 PM PST by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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To: MrEdd

We learn from this article that Sharia Law, like Communism, is a perfect system. It just hasn’t been done right yet. < / sarcasm >


8 posted on 01/01/2016 2:55:27 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Olog-hai

Saudi Arabia the land of enlightenment. /s


9 posted on 01/01/2016 2:57:25 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump and Cruz are not attacking each other. Why don't their follows take note)
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To: Olog-hai

Yes. Allah is great!! But worth losing your head, hand or other over??

Nyaaaa.


10 posted on 01/01/2016 3:01:24 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Olog-hai

The black tar heroin, spread only by Mexican illegal aliens, is extremely addictive and deadly, the dealers often giving free samples to youngsters. If we started chopping the heads of these dealers, like the Saudi’s do in drug cases, we would see a huge drop in the problem.


11 posted on 01/01/2016 3:05:46 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: Olog-hai
The DP for murder? Not unreasonable.For certain drug crimes? Ditto.For certain other crimes? Maybe.

Beheading...in public? Maybe not.

12 posted on 01/01/2016 3:20:42 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Olog-hai

Saudi version of Texas saying, “He/she just needed beheadin’”


13 posted on 01/01/2016 3:46:43 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: MrEdd

Wahhabism is the font source is nearly all Islamist and Jihadi movements. And the Saudis are the wardens of this evil creed. These Satanic monsters still behead, flog, and crucify human beings over matters of personal conscience, treat women as chattals, demonize Jews and Israel and fund mosques and imams in western countries which preach hate for Christianity, Judaism and all other religions, even non-Wahhabi Muslims. The Saudi Kingdom is a sore in the rectum of the human race and I hope I live long enough to see these pigs overthroen.


14 posted on 01/01/2016 4:12:58 PM PST by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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"Wahhabism is the font source is nearly all Islamist and Jihadi movements. And the Saudis are the wardens of this evil creed. These Satanic monsters still behead, flog, and crucify human beings over matters of personal conscience, treat women as chattals, demonize Jews and Israel and fund mosques and imams in western countries which preach hate for Christianity, Judaism and all other religions, even non-Wahhabi Muslims. The Saudi Kingdom is a sore in the rectum of the human race and I hope I live long enough to see these pigs overthroen. Yet, they are our precious allies!
15 posted on 01/01/2016 4:31:51 PM PST by mikeIII
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To: Olog-hai

While here in this Civil Country the human right groups are trying to get rid of our Death Penalty and our prison system but not a peep out of them about the barbaric muslim butchery!!!!


16 posted on 01/01/2016 5:42:55 PM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Olog-hai

“... least 63 people had been executed since the start of the year for drug-related offenses....”

Drugs good enough to die for!!!


17 posted on 01/01/2016 5:43:50 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (It's not an "administration", it's a crime syndicate of liars, thieves, freaks, fools & perverts.)
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To: Olog-hai

America needs the death penalty for drug dealers. But drug dealers and the money the contribute to campaigns are a core constituency for the Democrats, so Obama is putting them all back on the streets.


18 posted on 01/01/2016 5:56:14 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Libloather; TigerLikesRooster; Kaslin; John W; NRx; Mr. M.J.B.; Lorianne; EBH; AdmSmith; ...

You know that video that caused the Libyan embassy massacre? And the cartoons that caused all the rioting throughout the muzzie world? Well, the execution of criminals in Saudi Arabia brought about all that gov't-sponsored rioting in Iran. Thanks Olog-hai.
19 posted on 01/03/2016 3:15:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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