Last year on this date, to the impotent howls of human rights groups, five men were beheaded in Jizan, Saudi Arabia and then “crucified.” “In Saudi Arabia, the practice of ‘crucifixion’ refers to the court-ordered public display of the body after execution,” Amnesty UK noted, “along with the separated head if beheaded. It takes place in a public square to allegedly act as a deterrent.”
Here’s how these five deterred. If you look closely you’ll see the “along with the separated heads” bobbing near each decapitated corpse in little white bags … and if you’re still not convinced, click for a ghastly higher-quality close-up view.
Jizan is a city being
As an inducement to more legitimate folk to stay on the straight and narrow, the quintuple gibbet evidently graced the environs of Jizan’s university. Study hard, lads.
A sixth and unconnected Saudi was also beheaded on the same date in the nearby city of Abha.
On this day..
- 1559: Spanish Protestants at Valladolid
- 1832: Elizabeth Jeffery, Carluke poisoner
- 1525: Jäcklein Rohrbach, for the Weinsberg Blood Easter
- 1521: Xicotencatl Axayacatl, Cortes fighter
- 1650: James Graham, Earl of Montrose
- 1912: Rev. Clarence Richeson, minister, madman, and murderer
- 1940: Cayetano Redondo, former mayor of Madrid
- 1484: Olivier le Daim, diabolical barber
- 1894: Six anarchists in Barcelona
- 1997: Bruce Edwin Callins, in the machinery of death
- 1894: Emile Henry, because there are no innocent bourgeois
- 1425: Parisina Malatesta and Ugo d'Este, for incest
“I find sharia to be a barbaric law. I’m all for capital punishment but only in the western sense”
I wonder what Clayton Lockett would say: I bet the above executions didn’t (each) take **43** minutes.
ALL murder, including state-murder (capital punishment) is cruel and barbaric. Abolish it!
Well said, Irish.
I pity the Arab dude that commits a crime under sharia. I find sharia to be a barbaric law. I’m all for capital punishment but only in the western sense, it says more about us as a society when our punishment is cruel than it does about the criminal concerned. Society should always be held to a higher moral standard, otherwise good people are as devolved as the criminals themselves. Also their system of law leaves much to be desired, I doubt the police looked too hard or long beyond these men for other suspects in the strangled man’s life.
For my money, if you’re going to take a life, make sure it’s the right one. Make sure the end justifies the cause.