The Senior Observer

You woud would think that after being beheaded that you would be  dead enough.  No so in U S friend Saudia Arabia. Read and shake your head in amazement.
 

, 21 May (AKI) - Five Yemeni robbers were beheaded and crucified in the coastal city of Jazan, the official Saudi press agency (SPA) reported on Tuesday. Campaign group Amnesty International told Adnkronos International it was investigating reports it received that the executions took place early on Tuesday.

The five unnamed Yemenis were executed after a local court convicted them of a series of armed robberies that it said had endangered national security, according to an interior ministry statement cited by Saudi daily al-Madinah.

There been an increase in the number of executions in the Kingdom over the past six months, according to Amnesty. As recently as on Monday, a convicted Syrian drug trafficker was beheaded in the northern city of Qurayat, the SPA reported.

Three-quarters of the 682 confirmed executions wordwide in 2012 took place in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq, according to Amnesty.

That figure excludes the thousands of executions carried out in China each year, according to Amnesty.

The recorded number of executions rose sharply in Saudi Arabia last year when at 82 people were put to death - a more-than-threefold increase over the number recorded in 2010, according to Amnesty's 2012 report.

Those executed included at least 28 foreign nationals and at least five women, Amnesty said.

At least 250 prisoners remained under sentence of death, including some sentenced for non-violent offences such as apostasy and sorcery. Many were foreign nationals, sentenced for drug-related offences after grossly unfair trials, Amnesty said.