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| Sudanese Man Beheaded, Crucified in Saudi for Rape, Murder |
| 2012-04-21 |
| [An Nahar] Soddy Arabia beheaded and crucified a Sudanese man in Riyadh on Friday after he was convicted of raping, robbing and killing a woman, the interior ministry announced. Abdulrahman Zine Elabidine "broke into a house strangling its owner to death while she was asleep." He also raped her and stole 165,000 riyals ($44,000/33,000 euros) as well as gold jewelry, said the statement carried by state news agency SPA. He then set the house on fire. His beheading took to 20 the total number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom so far this year, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally based on official reports. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Wouldn't have been easier to just stick the head on a pike rather than crucify the whole body after the beheading? Or take a play out of Vlad's book: Impale them, alive, vertically on a pike. |
| Posted by: Charles 2012-04-21 12:37 |
| #4 And it's possible he actually did what he was killed for. it's also possible a connected Saudi did it, but our Sudanese former man was near at hand -- the Saudis have a history of falsely accusing foreigners. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-21 06:33 |
| #3 Norway, take note. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-04-21 06:25 |
| #2 If they first, beheaded him and then second, crucified him, he didn't care. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2012-04-21 04:04 |
| #1 Good riddance. Except the punishment is a bit excessive. I'd have stopped at crucifixion and left it at that. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-04-21 01:22 |