DEATH PENALTY
WHEN LIFE GENERATES DEATH (LEGALLY)

SITUATION IN SAUDI ARABIA

You are judged according to the Shâri'a, the holy law; in the holy month of Ramadan a traditional moratorium of executions is observed. Death penalty is comminated for sex crimes, drug crimes, sabotage, corruption, witchcraft, mastication of qat, production/distribution/assumption of alcohol. The execution are often after unfair trials, without any security. The defendants can also have no defender lawyer, and the confessions, even if they are taken with torture, are accepted like valid evidence and could also be the only evidence for the death sentence. Used methods are the beheading with a sharp sword for the men and the firing party for the women; the married women who are coulpable of adultery can also be stoned.
Executions take place in the main centers of the Kingdom, usually during the friday afternoon prayers, in a square in front of the provincial governor's mansion; a doctor is there to certify the condemned's death. Beheading is particulary violent for the victim and for those who assist: the death caused with this system is often extimated fast and pitiful, sometimes many strokes are necessary to kill the victim, who dies after a very heavy suffering.