News: Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners

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Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars

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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.

Most were executed for murder, but 38 had committed drugs offences, HRW said. About half were Saudi and the others were from Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, India, Indonesia, Burma, Chad, Eritrea the Philippines and Sudan.

Saudi authorities have not said why the number of executions has increased so rapidly, but diplomats have speculated it may be because more judges have been appointed, allowing a backlog of appeal cases to be heard.

Political analysts say it might also reflect a tough response by the judiciary to regional turbulence.

A downloadable pdf application form for the executioner jobs, available on the website carrying Monday’s date, said the jobs were classified as “religious functionaries” and that they would be at the lower end of the civil service pay scale.

thoughts?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...eheadings-soar

*Tim

How much does it pay?

Qudron

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Originally posted by *Tim

How much does it pay?

the lower end of the civil service pay scale, idk how much that is

Chyene

I've been looking for a part time position

Grumpy Gills

Do you need references and previous experience tho

highwayuni

Where can I send in my application?

RightAsRain

Lol mess @ the replies so far!

Reader

DILF $

And the gheys of atrl would care about this because? Let us live and do whatever we want!

Reader

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Originally posted by Rocky

And the gheys of atrl would care about this because? Let us live and do whatever we want!

Human rights issue, duh. In civilised countries, stuff like this hasn't happened for centuries. It's barbaric.

If Saudi wasn't so big in the oil game, they would be on the receiving end of a lot of political pressure to change. Saudi even engages is buying patents for clean-energy technology so the world's dependence on oil continues - and the form of Islam practiced there since the 18th century is the root of the problems we have with Islamic extremism/ISIS today. Wahhabism is funded by Saudi's oil sales.

The Unforgiving

The religion of peace is recruiting new peaceful extortionists to behead people peacefully, I see.
It must be Thursday

Cas

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Originally posted by The Unforgiving

The religion of peace is recruiting new peaceful extortionists to behead people peacefully, I see.
It must be Thursday

Correct.