Two Saudi cops beheaded for Rape

[My addition:This again proves that Saudi Arabia is a Barbaric Country, by carrying on Notorious execution methods like beheading. I do not think anywhere in the civilized world do we have such pre-historic methods of execution!! Moreover, Capital Punishment is not a solution to most of the crimes. It only brutalizes the societies. Hence stop death penalty in the name of curbing crime.

In one interview, a Saudi executioner, Muhammad Saad al-Beshi (Photo on the left side), once said, he is very proud to do God's work and does not lose sleep over beheading several people in one day.

"Despite the fact that I hate violence against women, when it comes to God's will, I have to carry it out."

The question remains who is God and when or where did he ask human being to do all these abominable things!! Or is God above law??!!

Mr.Beshi said he sometimes shot dead women convicted under Sharia. "It depends what they ask me to use. Sometimes they ask me to use a sword and sometimes a gun. But most of the time I use the sword," he said.

His job at a prison in Taif, where he had to handcuff and blindfold prisoners facing death, gave him a taste for executions.

The criminal was tied and blindfolded. With one stroke of the sword I severed his head. It rolled metres away," he said, recalling his first beheading.
"There are many people who faint when they witness an execution. I don't know why they come and watch if they don't have the stomach for it," he said. Once an execution goes ahead, his only conversation with the prisoner is to tell him or her to recite the "Shahada" - an affirmation of Muslim faith.
"When they get to the execution square, their strength drains away. Then I read the execution order, and at a signal I cut the prisoner's head off," he said.

Sometimes he also has to carry out amputations of hands or legs. "I use a special sharp knife, not a sword. When I cut off a hand I cut it from the joint. If it is a leg the authorities specify where it is to be taken off, so I follow that." .

Though rape should be considered as one of the dirtiest crimes and should be condemned with the strongest possible world, but I think there are better method to solve this problem rather go for barbaric methods.

Our aim should be stop crime and not go for archaic laws, damaging the basic tenants of our peaceful co-existence. This kingdom should be abolished as it doing a rape on the human civilization.

A kingdom which does not allow people to propagate other religions is not only farce but also a glowing example of religious intolerance.

When will to the world body restrain this backward kingdom from all sorts of inhuman exercises. The progressive nations world-over should abolish this notorious kingdom which is known to fund religious extremism across the globe. When will Saudi Arabia Join the main stream??!! How long will the civilized world witness such blatant violation of basic human rights. In this age of science we still have such primitive methods of punishment---where are we heading??!! STOP SUPPORTING DEATH SENTENCES].

Two Saudi police officers were beheaded after being convicted of raping an expatriate woman, the interior ministry said.
Corporal Shaalan bin Nasser al-Qahtani and Lance Corporal Fahd bin Hassan al-Sebeyi were convicted of attacking an expatriate and raping his niece at a checkpoint they were manning in the capital, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
They had stopped them late in the night, beat the man up and locked him in a police car and then raped the woman, it added, without revealing the age or nationality of the victims.
The two men were arrested shortly after the victims reported them at the nearest police station, it said.
Their executions bring to 11 the number of beheadings announced by the Saudi authorities since the beginning of the year. A total of 102 people were executed last year.
In 2007, a record 153 people were executed in the country. That figure compared with 37 in 2006 and the previous record of 113 in 2000.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in under the Gulf Kingdom's (Saudi Arabia) strict Islamic Sharia laws, where executions are usually carried out in public.

The Saudi authorities report public executions regularly - and are condemned by Western human rights groups.