Saudis defend Sri Lankan maid's execution, hit back at criticism

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Re: Saudis defend Sri Lankan maid’s execution, hit back at criticism

@GoldenAsif

bloody business for sure but** instant death, less pain**, I think most people would agree with this statement

As gross as it sounds, with beheading (cruel as it is), too many variables involved ((the skill (if you can call it that) of the person doing it, the sharpness of the sword, the force, whether the sword strikes the neck at the right place etc.))

We have heard stories of people surviving hanging (or remaining alive for 15-20 minutes etc.) … must be bloody painful

I second that. Beheading is a gruesome way of killing a person. I read somewhere that after beheading, a person’s head is able to see his surroundings for about half a minute. People who have seen a severed head say that emotions remain present in a beheaded head for that much amount of time.
Even thinking about it is gruesome.

Beheading was allowed in early Islam probably because it was the widely available way of punishing someone. But I am sure that if Islam was brought in this age and day then beheading would never have been used to kill anyone.
But it is the ignorance of these modern Wahhabi-minded Muslims who want to implement such gruesome ways of killings when other less-painful methods are available in this age which are closer to what Islam stands for.