Our Allies, the Sauds

There is a gigantic lie on which all Western foreign policies in the Middle East rest: it is the lie that you can preach about democracy, human rights, and progress while being aligned to one of the worst dictatorship in the entire region, certainly one of the most backward regimes in the last two centuries. The Saudi regime is now putting signs around the kingdom that say: "Your psychological stability rests in your loyalty to homeland". Those sons of Saud are quite Orwellian.

  Angry Arab

Saudi Arabia has a criminal justice system based on a hardline and literal form of Sharia law reflecting a particular state-sanctioned interpretation of Islam.

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Unlike executions in most other countries that have not abolished the death penalty, executions of offenders are not performed privately in prisons, but publicly in central Riyadh, and have been called the "only form of public entertainment" in Saudi Arabia "apart from football matches". It is one of the last four countries to still carry out public executions.

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The death penalty can be imposed for a wide range of offences including murder, rape, false prophecy, blasphemy, armed robbery, repeated drug use, apostasy, adultery, witchcraft and sorcery and can be carried out by beheading with a sword, or more rarely by firing squad, and sometimes by stoning.

  Wikipedia

[I]n 2012-13, our allies in Saudi Arabia cut the heads off of 79 people.

  AATTp