It’s one of the most gruesome jobs imaginable, with low pay and no special qualifications required.
And Saudi Arabia is now advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences - usually done by public beheading.
The main role is ‘executing a judgement of death’ - but workers must also perform amputations on those convicted of lesser offences, according to the advert posted on the civil service jobs portal. The Islamic kingdom is said to be in the top five countries in the world for putting people to death.
It ranked number 3 in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, according to Amnesty International figures.
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