By your saying, Saudi should be an oasis of peace that people should be queuing up outside their embassies to immigrate there. Unfortunately the queue is outside the western embassies. People are voting with their feet & to not see the obvious, is self deluding. Wake up & smell the coffee....

Let's, for the argument sake, assume that death penalty is a good thing, even when it is carried out by the grotesque method of beheading. How about the cause of justice? How can you say that simply because the judge has a long beard, speaks in Arabic, and considers himself a custodian of Islam, the accused would receive proper legal protections? How can Saudi Arabia claim that all those who have been beheaded there were indeed guilty and the prosecutors proved the guilt beyond reasonable doubt. The Sri Lankan maid who was recently beheaded did not seem to have received a fair trial. I am sure that the same is true for many others who have been beheaded by the Saudis. You don't serve the cause of justice by quickening the verdict, making laws tough and the mode of their execution inhuman. You serve justice through due process, and that is a lengthy affair. Siddique Malik, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Clearly you are not aware of the one sided 'shariah' justice in that country. Readers comments that followed including that of myself bear a clear indication of the true situation that prevails in that country. If however you think that kind of law should be applicable inPakistan, then God forbid, a majority of the Pakistani population would either be non-existent or walking around maimed.