Why does any Westerner think they can go to these shit countries without repercussions?

An Asian American Christian couple adopted African kids and moved to Qatar. Well one child died and the government thinks they killed her because people with light skin don't adopt black babies since all black people are ugly. They must really be after their organs.

That's right. You read it right. This coming from the official government investigators. It doesn't make any damn sense to them that people of different races would do nice things to one another because they are nothing but barbaric patriarchal savage tribes with money funded by Western countries.

For fucks sake these people don't even know how to work. They have to import all their labor, most of it honest to goodness slave labor, the kind that people die from.

Wait, there's something about Saudi Arabia that we like...if only I could put my finger on it.

...or...

When you need your 'cheap' oil fix, you don't really chide the pusher for their 'private' indiscretions.

"There is simply no excuse for Saudi Arabia's continued use of the death penalty, especially for these types of crimes."

In the U.S., I'm sure that all people who support the death penalty do not support it for any nonviolent crimes, so they (and I) would agree with the second part of that sentence, but not the first.

I'm in favor of it for people who commit murder, but only there is absolutely no doubt that the person is guilty (e.g. mass murderers like Nidal Hassan or serial murderers like human garbage Gary Hilton.)

As I said before in a previous discussion about this, executing a murderer may not be a deterrent to other people but it is certainly a deterrent to that murderer committing any more murders. (If anyone is aware of any executed murderer who has come back from the dead to murder more people, please let me know.)

An attorney in Washington made an interesting point a few years ago in an op-ed piece in one of our Seattle newsweeklies. He said that even if executions are never carried out, the existence of the death penalty can be a powerful tool to get murderers to confess to their murder(s); they confess as part of a bargain to avoid the death penalty. He cited one or two cases where this happened in Washington and, in the recent show I saw about Hilton, it was the same thing with him.

Washington, by the way, put its current capital punishment laws in place in 1981 but earlier this year, Gov. Jay Inslee (a Democrat) announced a moratorium on the death penalty in the state, saying capital punishment was being used inconsistently and unequally.