Saudis Behead Two Pakistanis

(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) With a wide sweep of a sharp and heavy sword, the Saudis regularly behead those convicted of rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.

Earlier today, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced that two Pakistanis got lopped.

Bakhityar Khan was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for drug smuggling, while Shahid Jameel was also put to death in the city for murder, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Their executions took to 126 the number of people put to death by Saudi Arabia this year, outstripping the previous record of 113 during all of 2000.

Last year 37 people were beheaded.

Meanwhile in the U.S., legal proceedings are pending or in process regarding the inhumanity and cruelty of inserting a needle in a condemned criminal's arm.