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Sun Sep 14, 2014, 06:47 AM

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Saudi Arabia, key to Obama’s strategy, beheaded at least 8 people last month [View all] marmar Sep 2014 OP

And the USA has executed 29 people this year. Spider Jerusalem Sep 2014 #1

Exactly. bvf Sep 2014 #5

How many were for sorcery? oberliner Sep 2014 #6

How many were for being black and unable to afford a decent lawyer? Spider Jerusalem Sep 2014 #12

None oberliner Sep 2014 #16

Way to miss the point, there Spider Jerusalem Sep 2014 #17

That could change in the future bvf Sep 2014 #19

Michael Brown was executed for allegedly stealing a box of cigarillos. Maedhros Sep 2014 #21

good point Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 #20

This is their method of carrying out a death srntence. Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #2

If what's fueling much of the ISIS outrage is the barbaric act of beheading whatchamacallit Sep 2014 #3

It is "prohibited under international law under all circumstances" oberliner Sep 2014 #8

Go tell the Saudi, I am not in the position to tell them. Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #9

You are in the position to tell them oberliner Sep 2014 #10

No, not my bucket list, I grant you to tell them. Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #11

And it's completely illegal under international law oberliner Sep 2014 #7

I don't really get this argument. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2014 #13

It's not an argument oberliner Sep 2014 #18

How is it inhumane, exactly? Spider Jerusalem Sep 2014 #15

We Americans like to pretend we're morally superior by using chemical lexington filly Sep 2014 #22

It's not Americans who are appalled by the blade - it's the whole world oberliner Sep 2014 #23

du rec. xchrom Sep 2014 #24

Why is ISIS beheading innocent people edhopper Sep 2014 #26