Saudi advertises for 8 executioners

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Saudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading.

No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role is "executing a judgement of death" but also involve performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences, the advert, posted on the civil service jobs portal, said.

The kingdom is in the top five countries in the world for putting people to death, rights groups say. It ranked number 3 in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the US, according to Amnesty International figures.

A man beheaded on Sunday was the 85th person this year whose execution was recorded by the official Saudi Press Agency, compared to 88 in the whole of 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Amnesty said there were at least 90 executions last year.

http://www.tradearabia.com/news/MISC_282224.html

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1. Charming rulers, I swear it..a little more on the subject:

Saudi Arabia advertises for new executioners to deal with surge in death sentences

The Islamic kingdom is in the top five countries in the world for putting people to death, rights groups say.

By Angus McDowall May 18, 2015

snip*No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role is "executing a judgement of death" but also involve performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences, the advert, posted on the civil service jobs portal, said.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.657106