Saudi Arabia: Smuggling Drugs? Off With Your Head
I remember back in my drinking days (80’s) finding out that the penalty for drunk driving in El Salvador was death…on the spot. Needless to say, I never visited El Salvador.
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded by the sword two men convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry announced.
Abdul Rahman Rashid and Qashaan al-Sabiee were executed in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom’s Eastern Province for “trafficking large amounts of drugs”, it said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency.
Their beheadings brought to nine the number of executions announced in Saudi Arabia this year, after a record 153 people were put to death in 2007.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in the Gulf country, where executions are usually carried out in public.
And they will cut your head clean off.
(AFP)
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