Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about protests when aged 16

Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by brianpgordon on Friday April 26, 2019 @07:07PM (#19762542)

Looks like the article says that he was 16 when he sent the messages, not when he was executed. He was executed at 21. Still unconscionable but sensationalizing doesn't help anything.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by xrd on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:01PM (#19762800)

He was beheaded. Maybe stating he was "executed" is actually the opposite of sensationalism?

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by ShinTakuya on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:51PM (#19763031)

Depending on the manner of beheading it's not the worst type of execution. A quick slice on a guillotine is preferable to an electric chair for example...

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by xrd on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:28PM (#19763582)

Are you telling me this so I can make the right choice when the time comes? Or, because the victim's family will be pleased to know that? Does this "fact" change the concern expressed in the article, do you think?

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by ShinTakuya on Saturday April 27, 2019 @08:01AM (#19765104)

I don't disagree, I'm against all executions. I'm just saying that if it was a quick beheading then I would say "execution" wouldn't be an euphemism like you've been saying.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by ericd on Saturday April 27, 2019 @01:57AM (#19764041)

But he clearly wasn't talking about the beheading part being the sensationalized part.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by kome on Friday April 26, 2019 @07:47PM (#19762732)

that's not sensationalizing.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by colejohnson66 on Friday April 26, 2019 @07:50PM (#19762741)

True, but the headline is slightly inaccurate so as to make it seem, I would guess, worse.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by brianpgordon on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:59PM (#19763068)

Slightly inaccurate? The headline is grossly incorrect. Beheading a 16-year-old is materially different from beheading a 21-year-old. The appalling possibility of a kid being executed is what made me click on the story in the first place.

And now my comment calling out the OP for creating a misleading headline is at -4 points. If HN is going to be a Facebook-like shithole of clickbait now, that's fine, but in that case I would appreciate it if someone could send me a lobste.rs invite so that I can keep ahead of the expanding event horizon of stupidity.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by ceejayoz on Friday April 26, 2019 @09:19PM (#19763129)

The headline is slightly inaccurate, but the point remains the same.

It's a travesty that someone's being beheaded for non-violent actions they performed as a child.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by ShorsHammer on Friday April 26, 2019 @09:27PM (#19763166)

> my comment calling out the OP for creating a misleading headline is at -4 points

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by addicted on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:16PM (#19763549)

The headline is inaccurate.

The correct headline would be “16 year old child tortured and made to confess to sending WhatsApp texts, and then beheaded 5 years later for confessing to sending WhatsApp texts as a child while being tortured. Also, 16 year old was tortured”.

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