Posts in "Execution"

Matt Cockerill's picture
By Matt Cockerill at 6:07PM

Saudi Arabia to execute man for "sorcery."

"Liberation" of oppressed peoples is often cited by US presidents as justification for sanctions and military  intervention overseas. Yet this is laughable to anyone who examines the diplomatic bedfellows of said presidents. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, for example, has had a longstanding "strategic" relationship with the US, despite the fact that its government executes gays, enslaves women, and prosecutes petty crimes with brutal corporal punishment.

Recently, an individual has been apprehended by the Saudi police, and is slated to be executed by the Saudi government for "sorcerery."  Your polite letter through the US embassies, to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, may help prevent this  government murder.

(H/T Tom Palmer)

Bonnie Kristian's picture
By Bonnie Kristian at 7:43AM

Western Execution of Afghan Children?

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The (UK) Times reports:

American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead.

Afghan government investigators said that eight schoolchildren were killed, all but one of them from the same family. Locals said that some victims were handcuffed before being killed.

I very much hope this report is false -- though I don't support our presence in Afghanistan at all, I also don't want this to be true of the soldiers we have there.  It brings the injustice to a new level.

Side note:  Have any of you seen reports of this in American media?  I haven't.