Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Sign up! Saudi Arabia is looking for eight executioners

Saudi Arabia hiring executioners as country levies more death sentences carried out by public beheading 
Sign up! Saudi Arabia is looking for eight executioners, like one scene in this mock killing held in protest of the country’s policies.
REUTERS   Tuesday, May 19, 2015, © Andrew Biraj




























  

                                 RIYADH 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 offenses, 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 number 3 in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, according to Amnesty International figures.
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