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[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Saudi advertises for swordsmen as execution rate soars

Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia advertised vacancies for eight executioners Tuesday after beheading nearly as many people since the start of the year as it did in the whole of 2014.

The civil service ministry said that no qualifications were necessary and that applicants would be exempted from the usual entrance exams.

It said that as well as beheadings, the successful candidates would be expected to carry out amputations ordered by the courts under the kingdom's strict version of Islamic sharia law.

Amputation of one or both hands is a routine penalty for theft. Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death.

Most executions are carried out by beheading, but a few are carried out by firing squad, stoning or crucifixion.

All are carried out in public and video footage sometimes appears on the Internet despite a ban on filming.

In January, gruesome footage was posted of a Burmese woman protesting her innocence before being beheaded by a swordsman on a public street in the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

Ignoring her screams, the white-robed executioner forces her to lie down on the ground, near a pedestrian crossing, then severs her head with a curved sword.

The official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said that Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim had been sentenced to death for killing her husband's six-year-old daughter.

The vacancies were advertised on the ministry's website in the "religious jobs" section.

 

[FSUTribe76]

I've seen the original video of Layla being beheaded and the person doing it purposefully is inflicting pain rather than the killing blow the first couple of times. But it seems that this (the torture) was court ordered rather than par for the course. Apparently in Saudi they can sentence you to either "painless" beheadings where the person is drugged beforehand to almost unconsciousness and the beheading is supposed to be in one stroke. The painful beheadings are for particularly heinous crimes where there is definitive proof of guilt. Then, no drugs are given and the executioner is directed to just make sure the head comes off but not necessarily quickly.

She got the latter because her 6 yo step daughter was found by her husband to have been beaten with a stick and sodomized and raped with the same stick until she was dead. The crime was pretty heinous, whether it was the husband who reported it or her who knows.

So on the one hand as an American it's pretty shocking to see someone basically tortured before death. On the other hand if she did do the crime she was accused of, it's karmic justice.

 

[FSUTribe76]

The other thing that's pretty shocking about the Saudi executions other than the court prescribed torture is that on other videos (not Layla's) the crowd is usually jumping up and down like its a soccer match and applaud the executioner after the stroke like a homerun in baseball. Definitely not the best of humanity on display in Saudi at the moment.

 

[More Kirk Less Spock]

and these are our allies...... I normally like to think people are people, but I think these people are savages. Not to say we don't have our own savages (see Waco wacko bikers slaughter each other).

 

[Ward17]

and these are our allies...... I normally like to think people are people, but I think these people are savages. Not to say we don't have our own savages (see Waco wacko bikers slaughter each other).

I really can't believe they are allies lol