Saudi Arabia: A 22-year-old who raped five children and abandoned one of them, a three-year-old, to die in the desert has been sentenced to beheading and crucifixion by the court of cassation.
To date Saudi Arabia has executed approximately 40 people since the start of 2009 - many of them murderers, drug traffickers, and rapists. The country has attracted the ire of rights groups who say the justice being meted out is draconian.
By Saudi legal definition crucifixion involves placing the beheaded body on public display by lashing it to wooden beams.
