Saudi Arabia: Five beheaded and ‘crucified’ amid ‘disturbing’ rise in executions [View all]

[nadinbrzezinski]

Saudi Arabia must halt a “disturbing” rise in death penalty usage that has resulted in at least 47 state killings in the country already this year, Amnesty International urged after six more people were executed today.

Five Yemeni men were beheaded and “crucified” this morning in the city of Jizan, while a Saudi Arabian man was executed in the south-western city of Abha.

“Saudi Arabia’s increased use of this cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment is deeply disturbing and the authorities must halt what is a horrifying trend,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa director.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/saudi-arabia-five-beheaded-and-crucified-amid-disturbing-rise-executions-2013-05-21

Why am I linking to a May story? Because a few folks here cannot believe our friends and pals are so great they actually have now carried out these executions.

So The Blaze carried the story of the execution, I know gasp, originating from the AP wire, and the Blaze is a *gasp* Glen Beck outfit. (It is, but clocks, broken clocks in this case come to mind) The Guardian picked up onthe same Wire story incidentally.

Yes, Saudi Aabia *is that barbaric* even if our nominal allies. And yes, they use beheadings, stoning, crucifixion, and firing squads. Their legal system has little in the way of long term sentences of any kind, and make the Chinese look civilized by orders of magnitude.

But to all of you going, but it's The Blaze!!!!!! Go argue with Amnesty m'kay.