As I believe that the Saudi Royal family would strictly observe Sharia law, even in their treatment of Jamal Khshoggi, I offer, as conjecture, an alternate scenario for what happened at the Saudi c:onsulate at Istanbul: I believe that a religious court, in Saudi Arabia, in absentia, sentenced Khshoggi to having his arms amputated for having written blaphemy. Amputation of a culprit's limbs being quite legal under Saudi law, and the Saudi consulate being, nominally, Saudi territory, the group that travelled there were deputized to execute the sentence with no inention to kill him. What may have happened is that the shock of amputation was too much for Khshoggi's body, in which case, it was the will of Allah that he perished.
As in the U.S., religious beliefs take precedence over Constitutional rights, which might or might not apply to noncitizens, in a foreign locale.
Interesting. Plausible? .... hmmmm.... I hate us human beings in the collective sense.
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