Saudi Arabia Is Now Hiring Executioners – ‘No Qualifications Necessary’

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Saudi Arabia has advertised vacancies for eight new executioners to handle the workload associated with the projected rise in public beheadings in the Sharia law-run state.

Saudi Arabia has advertised vacancies for eight new executioners to handle the workload associated with the projected rise in public beheadings in the Sharia law-run state.

The news comes after Saudi Arabia executed 37 people in one day last week, including a crucifixion, putting the Gulf state on target to slaughter a record number of its citizens in 2019.

The job vacancy, advertising the roles of eight new executioners, was reportedly posted on the country’s government jobs portal.

According to the job advert, no special qualifications are required for the position of executioner and no prior experience is necessary. The main skill is “executing a judgement of death” but also involves “performing amputations” on those convicted of lesser offenses, such as theft.

A Saudi government executioner shows off his curved, razor-shard sword used in public beheadings in the Sharia observant state.

The Sun reports:

Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s highest rates of execution: suspects convicted of terrorism, homicide, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking face the death penalty.

It has carried out nearly 600 executions since the start of 2014, more than a third of them in drug cases.

More than 140 people were put to death in the kingdom last year, where convicts are usually beheaded using a huge curved sword.

Public beheadings will typically take place around 9am when the convicted person is walked into a square and made to kneel in front of the executioner.

The executioner uses a sword known as a sulthan to remove the condemned person’s head from his or her body at the neck.

Statisticians have now projected more than 170 will be put to the sword this year – a record for modern times.

Last year, the Kingdom executed 149 people, most of them drug smugglers convicted of non-violent crimes

Rights groups began documenting execution numbers in the early 2000s and the figures have been trending upwards.

Last Tuesday one prisoner was crucified and another had his head impaled on a spike during dozens of sickening executions held over one day in the ruthless kingdom.

The killings were carried out in Riyadh, the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, central Qassim province and Eastern Province, home to the country’s Shiite minority.

Saudi authorities later revealed one person was crucified after his execution – a punishment reserved for what are deemed very serious offences.

It also publicly placed the executed body and severed head of a convicted Sunni extremist on a spike as a warning to others.

SHAM TRIALS

Law-makers said the men were charged with “adopting terrorist extremist ideology, forming terrorist cells” and harming the “peace and security of society”.

One of the men executed was just 16 at the time of his arrest, according to Amnesty International.

Those executed had been involved in attacking a base killing a number of security officers, the Saudi Press Agency statement said.

Amnesty International said they were convicted “after sham trials” that relied on confessions extracted through torture.

It marked the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since January 2, 2016, when the kingdom executed 47 people for terrorism-related crimes.

Among those slaughtered was Abdulkarim al-Hawaj, 21, just a schoolboy when he was detained and accused of being a “terrorist” for sending texts online about an anti-government demonstration.

The Interior Ministry’s statement said those executed had adopted extremist ideologies and formed terrorist cells with the aim of spreading chaos and provoking sectarian strife.

It said the individuals had been found guilty according to the law and ordered executed by the Specialised Criminal Court in Riyadh, which handles terrorism trials, and the country’s high court.

Amnesty International said 11 of the men were convicted of spying for Iran and sentenced to death after a “grossly unfair trial”.

At least 14 others executed were convicted of violent offences related to their participation in anti-government demonstrations in Shiite-populated areas of Saudi Arabia between 2011 and 2012.

The Interior Ministry said the body of one of the executed men Khaled bin Abdel Karim al-Tuwaijri was publicly pinned to a pole.

The statement did not say in which city of Saudi Arabia the public display took place.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry is a writer at The People's Voice. He covers politics, business and entertainment. Speaking truth to power since he learned to talk, Baxter has travelled in over 80 countries and won arguments in every single one. Live without fear.
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2 Comments

  1. You’d think these murderers would have plenty. Start with the ones that killed Khashoggi!

  2. The Saudi royal family are crypto Jews. Jews love killing. Love blood and feed off of the blood of innocence.

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