The controversy over Saudi Crown Prince MbS’s alleged orchestration of the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi has largely subsided since the government insider-turned-critic walked into the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in early October and never walked out. But a new controversy is brewing over one of the kingdom’s most controversial practices: Its mass-beheadings of men convicted of ‘terrorism’ charges, typically members of the Shiite minority living in the eastern part of the kingdom. Saudi Arabia has long practiced execution by beheading. But this year, the mass extermination of 37 of mostly Shiite men this week  provoked condemnation from the UN and other human rights organizations,  as several teenage boys were executed for crimes as seemingly petty a sending Whatsapp messages about government demonstrations. One particularly disturbing case was recounted in the  UK’s The Sun  tabloid. Abdulkareem al-Hawaj was just just 16 when he was arrested. Just a schoolboy at t