Saudi Arabia Beheads Sorceror

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Permalink Reply by Brent Feeney on October 11, 2011 at 4:55pm

And these are supposed to be our friends?

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on October 11, 2011 at 5:13pm

She's got emotional issues, but she's got huuuuuuuuge tracts of land ... with oil.

Permalink Reply by chris robinson on October 11, 2011 at 8:19pm

In my opinion, it's not really enough info to be too concerned here, as the USA also execute its citizens, granted not for the same retarded religious reasons, but until the USA wakes/grows up & gets educated etc, i dont think people in glass houses should be throwing any stones eh?.

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on October 11, 2011 at 9:36pm

I did think about posting how many Texecutions this year, for contrast.  So far this year, there have been 11.  Looks like about 34 executions in the US so far this year.  On the "brighter side", I'm not aware that the US has been executing people for being sorcerers.  It could be argued that the US occasionally executes people for being Black men.  Or for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time.  But executing a man for supposedly weaving a spell to get a man to leave his second wife....   that's bullshit.

 

As an individual, I'm mostly against executions in the US as well as in other countries.  I might make exceptions for someone who is just too dangerous to be allowed to live anywhere, like Bin Laden.  Or for torture murders, like the men who drug a man behind his pickup truck scraping off his skin and eventually his head.  It's hard for me to justify keeping those guys alive.  

Permalink Reply by Mick Wright on October 11, 2011 at 10:34pm

I'm the same. If an execution is to be performed, it should be as a last resort - an amputation performed on society, to remove a part that's far too dangerous to the rest, rather than a punishment for a misdeed.

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on October 12, 2011 at 9:59pm

my thoughts exactly.

Permalink Reply by Grace Fitzpatrick on October 13, 2011 at 6:51pm

Agreed.  But not for practicing witchcraft.

Permalink Reply by Mick Wright on October 11, 2011 at 8:59pm

This is...savagery. There's no softer word that fits. Anyone who believes that god shit and will act on it to the point of killing? They're savages, no matter which country they're from, or what language their signs are in.

Permalink Reply by Dale on October 13, 2011 at 3:31pm

Why can't we have more happy news in this group... true, it is motivational in the sense that it makes me ashamed of humanity and want to do something about it.

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on October 13, 2011 at 4:17pm

Lets look for happy news.  I anoint you the "finder of happy news".  mazel tov!

Permalink Reply by Dale on October 13, 2011 at 6:04pm

That is a tough one, but I wont finish my day without adding a post about happy news today.

Permalink Reply by Grace Fitzpatrick on October 13, 2011 at 7:07pm

Bill Gates is giving most of his wealth to charity and regularly donates millions in computers to public schools. That's all I've got for good news.