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So why are they better than ISIS?
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/30257-saudi-arabia-takes-out-ads-for-executioners-as-beheading-rate-soars
audi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out San 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.
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(13,468 posts)Psychopath wanted.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)I'm curious about this interview process.
jmowreader
(50,565 posts)At least part of the process has to be making you watch a few beheadings and amputations.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)kidding, I've read about those things going wrong. I don't know why they don't just use a guillotine, if they're so damned determined to go through with the punishments.
jmowreader
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