Saudi who killed with car executed by sword
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia beheaded by sword one of its citizens on
Tuesday after a court convicted him of murder, the interior ministry
said.
Shuwail al-Amri was found guilty of killing Mohammed al-Amri, an
apparent relative, by deliberately running him over with a car after a
dispute, the ministry said in a statement published by SPA state news
agency.
The execution took place in the southwestern region of al-Baha.
His beheading brings to 48 the number of people executed in the
ultra-conservative kingdom this year.
In 2012, the kingdom put to death 76 people, according to an AFP
tally based on official figures. Human Rights Watch has put the number
at 69.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all
punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of sharia, or
Islamic law.
AFP
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