RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheadings as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom because it can't find enough swordsmen.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a death sentence results in beheading in a public square. A government committee argues that a change to execution by firing squad would be fine under the laws of Islam, the Saudi daily newspaper al-Youm reports. "This solution seems practical, especially in light of shortages in official swordsmen or their belated arrival to execution yards in some incidents," the committee said in a statement. http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/12/lack-of-swordsmen-leads-saudi-arabia -to-consider-dropping-public-beheadings-as-method-of-execution/
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