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Dominic-Pax · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 77

Have you ever seen a public execution in Saudi Arabia?

johnslat · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:19 pm Post subject:

Dear Dominic-Pax,

Yes.

Regards,
John

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Dominic-Pax · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 77

Asda · Joined: 01 Jun 2008 Posts: 231

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I knew of one Briton in Jeddah whose hobby was visiting public executions. Well, every man needs a hobby !

Charles Dickens used to do the same !

freesoul · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:17 am Post subject:

They are doing it more behind closed doors in prisons than in public these days.

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

What is the purpose of obtaining such information; besides satisfying a morbid curiosity?

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

I guess its the same morbid curiosity that made me watch a few youtube beheadings. Gruesome, but its reality, so why not view it a bit.......... Surprised

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

johnslat · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:00 pm Post subject:

Dear Dominic-Pax,

It was by chance, in Jeddah, in the early 80s. I was downtown doing some shopping and happened to notice a rather large crowd gathering.
I went over and asked what was going on. One English-speaking spectator
informed me that a beheading was about to take place, a Saudi who had raped a young boy was going to be executed.
When the other spectators saw I was a "foreigner," they wanted me to get a good view, so a sort of path to the front opened up.

My reflections? Well, I wasn't the first time I'd seen someone die by being killed. I was in Vietnam in 1966. But the difference here was it didn't happen swiftly and it was orchestrated. I wouldn't advise anyone to view an execution; it's not something you forget, and it's a gruesome experience. I can easily recall to this day all the specifics, and why would anyone want to carry that around?

Regards,
John

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

saharastars · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 107 Location: Wonderland

Death is intimate, emotional and personal. like all personal intimate things , its not something that requires an audience, would you like to be watched whilst being killed by complete strangers? And why would you want to do that to any other living being?

Asda · Joined: 01 Jun 2008 Posts: 231

I am sure that there a number of people worldwide who think that they are dishing out some sort of justice when putting death row criminals to death, that they are doing some kind of good deed. As for the audience, surely it is to make an example of people who are found guilty of such acts hence a powerful deterrent.

Sheikh Abdullah · Joined: 07 Mar 2009 Posts: 54 Location: California, USA

Nicely said, Asda Smile