Make no bones about it, Ahmed Saliba is not a happy man at the moment. Suffering from chronic pain in his right shoulder, the Saudi Arabian executioner has just visited a physiotherapist who charged him the equivalent of €120 without so much as laying a hand on him.
“He said, you need to come back at least four more times 400 riyal that robbing bastard just charged me, to tell me something I already know, it’s just a money racket, is what it is”.
The pain in Saliba’s sword-swinging shoulder has gotten unbearable in the past 6 months due to the amount of executions in Saudi Arabia leaping from 88 for the whole of 2014, to 110 in the first 8 months of 2015 alone. If the pace keeps up, the Government looks set to comfortably beat their 1995 record of 192, which Saliba claims will leave him barely able to lift his arm by December.

“Sometimes I’ll be beheading a lad who was sentenced to death for adultery, and I think seriously, they coulda just flogged this lad and given me the day off,” said Saliba, while rubbing Deep Heat on himself.
“Back before they started to chase the title of most yearly executions, currently held by China, I’d only behead murderers and rapists and the like. Now, they have me beheading lads accused of sorcery, drug possession, gay lads, and lads accused of apostasy. I don’t even know what apostasy is, but I know it’s not worth me not being able to feed myself a fucking sandwich with the pain in my shoulder”.
By comparison, the USA, close allies with Saudi government, executed 35 people during 2014, although Ahmed was quick to point out that most of those were conducted by lethal injection.
“Let them come over here and bring a scimitar down on a lad’s neck three times a week, see how their shoulders hold up!” he groused.

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