Gotta love that sharia:
Sarhan al-Mashayekh was one of seven men whose death sentences were confirmed
by King Abdullah on Saturday. The other six were due be shot by firing squad on
Tuesday. Mashayekh would have been executed at the same time and then, to fulfil
(sic) his additional sentence, his body displayed to the public in a cruciform
position for three days.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other human rights groups all
exressed outrage at the sentences, partly because of their severity, partly
because the defendants claimed confessions had been extracted under torture, and
partly because at least two of those condemned were minors at the time the
crimes were committed.
On Tuesday afternoon the sentences were put on hold, local officials and
relatives said. The delay was ordered by Prince Faisal bin Khaled al-Saud, the
governor of Asir province, where the case took place, one official said.
The seven were convicted of armed robbery, but one of the men, in an
interview on Monday from his prison cell, claimed that the group was unarmed
when they stole jewellery from a string of shops in the southern
Saudi Arabian city of Abha
in 2006. He said that confessions to armed robbery were beaten out of the men.
Saudi authorities regularly order beheadings and other forms of death
sentence for rape and murder, and while armed robbery can also attract the
ultimate penalty it is employed more rarely. Crucifixion is occasionally ordered
as an extra humiliation - and warning - even where the method of initial
execution is beheading.
Way to out-Draco Draco, Wahhabis.
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