Tag: Executions

Saudi Arabia

Death penalty: Mass execution in Saudi Arabia as 81 people put to death

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

So you need our Oil……. Dictators are all the same but their supporters Israel, US, and Australia seem not to be as consistent. They pick and choose which dictatator they favor.

Saudi Arabia on Saturday put 81 people to death in the largest mass execution in the kingdom modern history. The number put to death surpassed that of the January 1980 mass execution of those convicted of the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, which saw 63 people beheaded.

Source: Death penalty: Mass execution in Saudi Arabia as 81 people put to death

Trump, Trumpland

Trump is spending the last days of his presidency on a literal killing spree | Donald Trump | The Guardian
‘Last week, Trump and Barr executed Brandon Bernard even though he committed his crime when he was just 18 years old.’

In disregard for political precedent or basic humanity, Trump has fast-tracked federal executions before Biden takes office

Trump is spending the last days of his presidency on a literal killing spree | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Trumpland

Trump Execution Spree Continues at Federal Killing Ground
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, UNITED STATES - 2020/07/15: Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action, an execution abolitionist group, protests near the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex where death row inmate Wesley Ira Purkey was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.Purkey's execution scheduled for 7 p.m., was delayed by a judge. Purkey suffers from Dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. Wesley Ira Purkey was convicted of a gruesome 1998 kidnapping and killing. (Photo by Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

More federal executions have been carried out in 2020 than in the past 57 years combined.

Trump Execution Spree Continues at Federal Killing Ground
Andrew Bolt, Beheading

Abbott & Bolt beheadings Ok in Saudi Arabia

What’s behind the spike in Saudi beheadings?

Young Bangladeshis stage a mock execution in protest of Saudi Arabia beheading eight workers in 2011 [Reuters]
Human rights groups say there has been an upsurge of executions in Saudi Arabia, after more than one execution per day in the first three weeks of August was carried out. To date this month, the country has almost doubled the number of declared executions in the seven months before August 4.Charges have included murder, drug smuggling, and sorcery. On August 18, four members from the same family in the southwestern city of Najran were beheaded for smuggling a “large quantity of hashish“.  The next day a Saudi national was executed in the northern city of Qurayyat for sorcery.The Saudi Ministry of Justice has announced the execution of 26 individuals since August 4. In the seven months prior, 15 executions were carried out, bringing the total number to 41 so far this year. However, there were no executions during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan this year between June 28 and July 28

Each year, the Saudi government executes foreign nationals as well as local citizens.