Saudi Arabia executes 47 convicted criminals in one day

Saudi Arabia executes 47 convicted terrorists in one
day
Saudi Arabian government has executed 47 people
in one day including the prominent Shia cleric
Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr after convicting them of
Terrorist related activities that have occurred in the
last decade.
According to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interiors,
the executed men believed in extremist ideology,
were members of terror groups, and they were
convicted of plotting and carrying out attacks
against civilians going back as far at an attack on
the U.S. consulate in Jeddah in 2004.
The interior ministry statement began with Koranic
verses justifying the use of execution and state
television showed footage of the aftermath of al-Qaida
attacks in the last decade.
Saudi grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh
appeared on television soon after to describe the
executions as just.
According to the Ministry of Interior,the executions
were carried out in 12 different locations and four
convicts were beheaded, but no mention was made
of the other methods of execution .