Saudi authorities executed on Friday a Pakistani man convicted of rape and murder, in the northwestern town of Tabuk.
According to a statement from the Saudi Interior Ministry, Amjad Ali Kol was convicted of raping and strangling a woman, before stealing her money.
His beheading brings to 33 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the year.
In 2012, the kingdom executed 76 people. The US-based Human Rights Watch put the number at 69.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of Sharia, or Islamic law.
Assuming that the defendant truly was guilty, this is a satisfactory outcome. Unfortunately, few jurisdictions give enough attention to the crime of rape.
The only way to end the outrageous pattern of officially-tolerated rape is for women in India, Pakistan and many other countries to band together, capture and punish the rapists by castrating and whipping them. There is no other way to put things right.
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