Saudi could end beheadings 'due to shortage of swordsmen'

[Zarvan]

Washington: Saudi Arabian authorities are planning to drop public beheadings as a method of execution, a report has said.

Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported in its Sunday edition that the ministerial committee is considering fatal shootings as an alternative.



The move to end beheadings may be coming due to a shortage of swordsmen, reports Ahram online.

There have been calls in the kingdom for replacing public beheadings with lethal injections carried out in prisons, CBS News reports.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a death sentence results in beheading in a public square.

The kingdom executes anyone convicted of murder, armed robbery, rape and trafficking in drugs, the report said.

It has executed 15 people so far this year, 76 last year and 79 in 2011, it added.

(ANI)
Saudi could end beheadings `due to shortage of swordsmen`

 

[Azazel]

Ahh. @Zarvan,Its time for you to get a Saudi Visa.

 

[Armstrong]

Why don't we use firing squads anymore ?

 

[hunter_hunted]

Why don't we use firing squads anymore ?

Ask this to govt and Iftikhar Choudhary...... They dont hang the terrorists and Firing Squads are getting fatty

 

[narcon]

Lethal injection is haram, Unislamic, against the Sharia. why resort to such practice?

 

[Mercenary]

How could they run out of swordsmen?

I mean they executed 74 people last year. Isn't just one swordsmen enough?

I mean what other stuff does that executioner has to do?

 

[Spring Onion]

use automatic blades i mean the machanical ones which they use for slaughtering cows and other meaty animals

How could they run out of swordsmen?

I mean they executed 74 people last year. Isn't just one swordsmen enough?

I mean what other stuff does that executioner has to do?

he has to have a heart to cut off the head.

 

[Zarvan]

How could they run out of swordsmen?

I mean they executed 74 people last year. Isn't just one swordsmen enough?

I mean what other stuff does that executioner has to do?

Well may be they are not that expert or make some horrible mistakes shooting will be better replacement

 

[Armstrong]

use automatic blades i mean the machanical ones which they use for slaughtering cows and other meaty animals

he has to have a heart to cut off the head.

Whaaat !

May God save us from the wrath of Spring Onion !

Seriously why not just hang them or better yet use a firing squad ?

 

[narcon]

The fact is that, as the Saudi Arabia is advancing, it is changing the way it carries death penality in a most barbaric way. The only country beheading its own people every friday officially.

Its time for a change and be little civilized if not 100 pcnt.

 

[JonAsad]

Since the purpose is death why cant we continue to use the most painless way to kill the culprit?-
Beheading is the most painless way to take a life-

 

[Spring Onion]

Whaaat !

May God save us from the wrath of Spring Onion !

Seriously why not just hang them or better yet use a firing squad ?

it costs more bullets

 

[narcon]

Interview of an Saudi Executioner

Meet Abdallah Al-Bishi, a Saudi government executioner --a family man who chops people's heads off with his sword for a living. He casually talks of his job, its required skills, its stresses and its challenges. Facinating wtf video.






[video]http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80617326/[/video]

 

[narcon]

The fellow in the Video travels through Saudi Arabia for executions in other provinces of SA.

Actually a lack of swordsmen is a misnomer here, re-read the following caption:

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/saudis-rethinking-method-of-execution-report_834365.html

 

[hunter_hunted]

Whaaat !

May God save us from the wrath of Spring Onion !

Seriously why not just hang them or better yet use a firing squad ?

Man Dont ever mess with Spring Onion. Her words bring Shivers