Saudi Arabia to behead teenager for attending protest

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55. No, other differences include the number and quality of death penalty offenses and due process

in adjudicating each case. Killing a teen for attending a protest is in fact different from killing a confessed mass murderer. I oppose all forms of the death penalty, but it can not be denied that the progress away from capital punishment in every nation has involved decreasing the offenses for which the State can take a life. Britain, which now has no death penalty of any kind, used to have over 220 capital offenses such as pickpocket theft, which was capital offense until 1808. By 1965 Britain ended executions for murder. Treason remained on the books as capital crime until 1998.

So I do not think it serves Saudi Arabia to affect that executions for thought crimes are no different than executions of murderers. It is different. Both are wrong, but one contains much more wrong, for one executes for murder, for adultery, for being gay, for writing the wrong thing, for changing religions....even if the kernel is identical, the breadth and magnitude are not identical.
Saudi Arabia needs to get on the progress train. The US is inching up to where Britain was in 65. Saudi Arabia is worse than Britain 1800. It's 2015, all over the world.