Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/saudi-arabia-advertises-eight-new-executioners-beheadings-soar

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 judgment of death” but also involve performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences, the advert, posted on the civil service jobs portal, said.

The Islamic kingdom is in the top five countries in the world for putting people to death, rights groups say. It ranked third in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, 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.

Ah yes, our wonderful allies the Saudis. Hey, at least they're job creators!

[John Poet]

1. Maybe that's where "W" Bush should go

for a post-presidency job. He was a heckuva executioner in Texas. Anyway, he's got a lot of Saudi pals that should give him some good personal references. The Bin Laden family, for example...

[polly7]

2. That's what I was thinking!

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Yoo, Rice, Bremmer, McCain .......... only one more needed. [URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL] Oh ...... Bolton!

I think they'd be a fantastic executioner team.