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Saudi Arabia holds mass execution of 37 people, including one crucifixion.

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CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/middleeast/saudi-executions-terror-intl/index.html

(CNN)Saudi Arabia has executed 37 men convicted of terror-related crimes, the kingdom's official news agency said Tuesday.

One of the convicts was crucified, according to an interior ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

"The death penalty was implemented on a number of criminals for adopting extremist terrorist ideologies and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disrupt security as well as spreading chaos and provoking sectarian strife," SPA said in a tweet.
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barbaric.

I'm sure the "law and order" types and mob vigilantes would applaud this. They love the death penalty.
 
Muslims are bad! Except, for some reason, these particular Muslims, whom Trump basically exonerated when they murdered a US resident journalist in their embassy. And I bet none of the killers were among the 37.
 
Have you decided to pursue a career as a newscaster. What are your thoughts Joe?
 
I don't believe nations should use the death penalty for any crime, that's my stance.

But even if I did, what's the point in crucifying someone who has already been executed, it's like the whole head on a pike around the castle sort of thing. Bloody uncivilised and barbaric, religions have a lot to answer for.
 
It still shocks and amazes me that there are (in the 21st century) countries that continue to maintain medieval forms of judicial punishment.

Public beheadings, hangings, stonings, etc etc.

Chopping off someone's hand will not stop the next starving person from stealing a loaf of bread.

You'd think it would be obvious at this point that no amount of public punishment (executions or otherwise) is ever going to deter people from committing crimes, particularly if those actions are founded on strongly-held ideologies/beliefs.

People will always justify in their minds what they feel they need to do, laws and lives be damned.
 
p0lka said:
I don't believe nations should use the death penalty for any crime, that's my stance.

But even if I did, what's the point in crucifying someone who has already been executed, it's like the whole head on a pike around the castle sort of thing. Bloody uncivilised and barbaric, religions have a lot to answer for.
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Did you read somewhere they killed him first? I thought the idea was letting the person die slowly?
 
Darat said:
Punishment aside, how likely is it that those executed had fair trials?
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Several of the people who were executed confessed to their crimes after they were tortured.

Therefore, their trials were quite unfair, and quite typical, for Saudi Arabia.
 
Seriously, if you have no interest in ever rehabilitating those sentenced, if you are just locking them up in a horrible place a throw away the key, it is faster, cheaper, safer and more honest just to execute them. If there is no judicial oversight that could allow for the correction of an unjust verdict, then go ahead and admit that it is all about control, not justice, an execute your enemies and undesirables.
 
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