Aisha Azar

Dear Gagn,
I am trying to think of a few of the things I have heard about beheadings from Saudis. It seems like a lot of beheadings are not even of Saudi nationals, but of people who have tried to sneak drugs or alcohol into the country, mostly people not from First World countries, but Pakistanis and others who work there and are from poor countries. In the airport, people are warned about it, even.
My best friend is Saudi as many of you already know and she says that there is a family in Saudi Arabia who has many family members that end up getting beheaded because they are always in trouble. The family is even kind of famous, (or perhaps infamous) for it. I wish I could remember the name!
The law reads that single people are not beheaded for having sex outside marriage, but married people can be beheaded. Single people are publicly beaten. Of course, this does not mean that a girl's father or brother might not kill her for it, but then again, she might just live,too. And there is the question of whether the King's favorite niece was beheaded or if some poor innocent woman was beheaded in her place. I am referring to the documentary" Death of a Princess", in which King Fahd's favorite niece had an affair and was caught, even though she was not married, and supposedly beheaded. There are reasons to doubt she was.
Many times political crimes are punished with beheadings, and any crime against the religion.
That's about it off the top of my head. I will try to look up my master's thesis and see if I can come up with more.
Regards,
A'isha