Posted on 07/06/2019 7:28:16 AM PDT by budj
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 9:50 A. M., Tuesday, August 31, 1999. “They will kill four today,” one Saudi in the crowd said.
“No, fifteen,” said another.
“You’re all wrong,” said one of the dozens of soldiers deployed around the parking lot of the city’s central mosque where the executions take place. “They will kill eight. They killed eight last Tuesday, and two more on Friday. And today is Tuesday, and they will kill eight again.” The method of execution is decreed in the Qu’ ran: beheading by sword. Saudi Arabia is the only nation that regularly beheads offenders.
The flag of Saudi Arabia
National symbol of Saudi Arabia. Notice a theme?
I’m the only Westerner in the crowd. I'd arrived early with my Saudi military friend, Tariq, and I got a choice spot in the front row overlooking the platform where eight people would soon die. “We need these executions,” Tariq insists. “Without them we would have even more crime and more of a drug problem. God willing, we will never have a drug problem like America and Europe.” Their crime rate is lower than in the West, but they do have a drug problem, although it admittedly isn’t as severe as ours.
Saudi Arabia performs beheadings for murder, rape, armed robbery, drug smuggling, and other offenses that “threaten the public order,” such as armed robbery. When I first arrived in Saudi Arabia, their newspapers reported the beheading of two Saudis who raped a 12-year-old shepherd girl. I sent the article to my favorite pub in Maryland. I heard that waitresses and customers alike said they wished we meted out the same punishment to child rapists in America.
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So, maybe the Saudis have one thing right
The elites and the politicians have their hands in the drug trade so this will not happen here
” I heard that waitresses and customers alike said they wished we meted out the same punishment to child rapists in America.”
That’s fine and dandy with me...or the millstone method is good too.
Other behaviors are decreed in the Qu' ran.
Start with all Bush and Clinton drug Lords
In America, we will have a 3 year trial.
That’s not justice
America has borrowed ideas from many cultures.
Certain aspects of the Arabic judicial system I find very attractive.
“In America, we will have a 3 year trial.
That’s not justice”
Around here, you don’t even GET to trial in three years.
Sounds good to me.
So, maybe the Saudis have one thing right
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IMHO there’s no question that in regard to capital punishment Saudi Arabia is truly a more civilized country than the U.S. or any other country in the west.
They only get the peons here. The politicians, judges, and lawyers skate.
Recidivism rate 0%.
In America, we will have a 3 year trial.
That’s not justice
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And with rare exceptions, criminals who should be tried, convicted, and executed within days of their apprehension will instead get rent-free private rooms, three nourishing meals everyday, free healthcare, free entertainment, free legal counsel, and free gym facilities, all courtesy of law-abiding taxpayers. And all the professionals in the private and public sectors who make their living in the criminal judicial systems will do everything possible to ensure the continuation of this travesty.
Until the US quickly executes drug dealers, it is fair to say our leadership likes to see people addicted to drugs and their lives ruined. Right now the “War on Drugs” is a sham designed to siphon off tax money for “programs” that everyone knows won’t work.
Any Congressperson who refuses to vote for the death penalty for dealers has a craving to see drugs sold in grade schools.
I think that the sclerotic pace of justice in America is (at least in part) a result of the fear that innocents will be executed, which is a real risk of fast justice.
On the other hand, when murderers sit around in prison for decades while their death penalty sentence is dragged through multiple years-long appeals, there is no justice.
Forensic techniques are getting better. We can certainly speed things up and still avoid executing innocent people.
Only in this country does the liberal left protest the state killing of rapist murderers going to their deserved death and applaud an cheer sate killing of the unborn.
Correct! They protect the guilty and prosecute the innocent.
Savage treatment for savages is all they understand.
Are Bank Executives considered drug dealers if they knowingly launder cartel money? I’ll know there really is a War on Drugs when I see people like that getting the severe punishments. And not just find 10% of the profits they made.
Government shouldn’t kill people.
Have a trial, if and when convicted, then turn the dirtbags over to a “Citizens Committee”.
Have the people hack them to pieces with axes, machetes, bolos etc.
If the people can’t do it, the offenders got to a big fenced-in area of desert to die and rot away in the sun.
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