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1. Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia......................My mind wandered off when I turned sound off
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:45 PM
5 hrs ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_Arabia

Public beheadings typically take (or took) place around 9 a.m. The convicted person is walked to a courtyard near the courthouse and kneels in front of the executioner. A police official announces the crimes committed by the person and the beheading takes place. The executioner uses a sword known as a sulthan to remove the condemned person's head from his or her body at the neck.[23] After a medical examiner inspects the body and then pronounces the convict dead, a police official announces the crimes committed by the beheaded convict once again and the process is complete. Professional executioners have beheaded as many as 10 people in a single day.[24]

Crucifixion of the beheaded body is sometimes ordered in cases where the person was a child molester or a rapist.[25] For example, in 2009, the Saudi Gazette reported that "an Abha court had sentenced the leader of an armed gang to death and three-day crucifixion (public displaying of the beheaded body) and six other gang members to beheading for their role in jewelry store robberies in Asir."[26]

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