Saudi Arabia executes 81 human beings in one day.

[Jehanne]

Now that you guys mention it, I am somewhat familiar with the Nazis being tried at Nuremberg. But on an unrelated note......81 people is not very many people, chump change really, and people die all the time from all kinds of causes. What makes this particular case special?

Reminds me of a statement by Lenin, "A death of an individual is a tragedy, the death of a million, a statistic".

Executions are unnecessary and cruel; 81 in one day is, at a minimum, poking due process of law in the eye. By international standards of law, everyone is entitled to due process, and beheading 81 human beings in an afternoon is not due process.