ISIS(L) BEHEADINGS FOLLOW SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADINGS HISTORY
21st Century Beheadings in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia uses public beheading = As punishment for murder, rape, drug trafficking, sodomy, armed robbery, apostasy, sorcery and certain other offences.
156 Beheadings in 2007 = Record year for executions with 153 men and 3 women
47 Beheadings in 2002 = 45 men and 2 women
53 Beheadings in 2003 = 52 men and 1 woman
36 Beheadings in 2004 = 35 men and 1 woman
90 Beheadings in 2005 = 88 men and 2 women
40 Beheadings in 2006 = 35 men and 4 women
156 Beheadings in 2007 = 153 men and 3 women
102 Beheadings in 2008
67 Beheadings in 2009 = 65 men and 2 women.
26 Beheadings in 2010 = 26 men and 0 women
77 Beheadings in 2012 = 76 men and 1 woman
TOTAL 694 Beheadings in 10 Years or 69.4 per year
19 Beheadings in Just August 2014
Saudi Arabia uses a traditional 45 inch Arab scimitar (sword) usually with one swing sending the head flying some two or three feet with a fountain of blood spurting from the neck.
Beheadings of women did not start until the early 1990’s = 47 Women have been headed.