Woman beheaded in Saudi Arabia for practicing witchcraft
 

Woman beheaded in Saudi Arabia for "practicing witchcraft"

:hmmm: I didn't know people had the "freedom of speech/ religion" in Saudia Arabia.

Learned sumptin new today.

Hmm did think the same when reading the article.
Me thinks that "trying to excercise their right to freedom of speech or religion" would have hit the point better.

Stupid Saudi's. Everybody knows that medieval societies burn witches, not decapitate them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU

Finally they got hold of my Ex. :arrgh!:

73rd execution there this year :o

That is Penguin's ex-spouse? He has interesting taste... :hmmm:

I stopped at Saudi Arabia.

And the US has only executed 43 so far this year, still time for a couple more. :o

So by only executing 60%* of what Saudi's do is totally giving them the morally higher ground :hmmm:


Jussayin! :D


*Actually 58.9% if you must know.

I don't think this had very much to do with religion at all. It has everything to do with the Saudi Government using and co-opting religion in order to maintain its stranglehold on the people.

Maybe we should "liberate" those people.... just sayin...:down:

I've suggested to the wife she may want to consider going to Saudi for the festive season :smug:

I alway have trouble with the death penatly. Sometimes bravado wells up over an issue I find unbearable and I yellout, "hand me the rope". But then I read stories like this one, bloodlust me thinks.

another one here.

http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2011/1...-on-death-row/

the link below makes interesting listening, a special man Pierrepoint but you will need RealPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/conte..._feature.shtml

but if we look at the ratio of executed:population
the US is much lower

I am in favor of the death penalty for drug dealers

Of course one argument for the other side might be the difference in the reasons given for the executions and the crimes of the executed. It's been a long time since we exersized the death penalty for witchcraft.

Treason is still on the books for execution in the US. The only crime on the books that does not need felony murder to be eligible.

I believe it is 743 per 100,000 is the incarceration rate here in the US. 178 per 100,000 in Saudi Arabia.

US population 323 million and change. 2.3 million inmates. .001% executed

S A population 27 million and change. 48,060 inmates. 16% executed

I was never great with #'s so if I am off please correct.

Going from you figures, I get 0.178%. I looked at those figures and did my own sums yesterday before posting, but didn't post my results - off the top of my head (cba to do it all again) and they were both in the 0.something but I thought it was even less than .001% for US.

lol
well that's one of her many manifestations :03:

Ok, was never great with decimals, but even with your math, there is a huge discrepancy.