Executions Surging in Saudi Arabia
Amnesty International says executions are surging in Saudi Arabia...
[The] report - "Affront to Justice: Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia" - says there were 158 recorded executions in 2007 and the figure between January and August 2008 stood at 71. There were at least 1,695 executions between 1985 and May 2008.
[C]onfessions are extracted through torture, ranging from cigarette burns, to electric shocks, nail-pulling, beatings and threats to family members.
Saudi officials routinely defend [public] beheadings [pictured above] as a quick and clean form of execution sanctioned by the Islamic faith.
In some cases, execution is followed by crucifixion.
(BBC News)
Amnesty International says executions are surging in Saudi Arabia...
[The] report - "Affront to Justice: Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia" - says there were 158 recorded executions in 2007 and the figure between January and August 2008 stood at 71. There were at least 1,695 executions between 1985 and May 2008.
[C]onfessions are extracted through torture, ranging from cigarette burns, to electric shocks, nail-pulling, beatings and threats to family members.
Saudi officials routinely defend [public] beheadings [pictured above] as a quick and clean form of execution sanctioned by the Islamic faith.
In some cases, execution is followed by crucifixion.
(BBC News)
1 comment:
Justice, fair trials and humane punishments that fit the crime have never been strong points in the Middle East. It is sad that nothing has prompted that to change for the better in the 21st century. If their own people don't rise up against this, it's hard to know what will change this.
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