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Don't Lose Your Head

Charles Oliver | 5.29.2015 6:00 AM

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The government of Saudi Arabia is looking to looking to hire eight new executioners to keep up with the growing number of people sentenced to death by beheading. The executioners will also perform amputations on people convicted of lesser crimes.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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