Saudi Executions Toll Hits 40
A Saudi convicted of murder was beheaded on Tuesday, the interior ministry announced, raising to 40 the number of people executed in the conservative Muslim kingdom this year.
Maneh al-Daen was found guilty of stabbing to death a fellow tribesman, Nasher al-Daen, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
He was beheaded in the southwestern city of Najran.
His beheading brings to 40 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia since the start of the year, according to an AFP tally.
In 2012, the kingdom executed 76 people, according to a count based on official figures.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.
14 May 2013, 13:48
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what a schizophrenic society ... on one hand they comply with US and Europe by importing all kind of laws and human rights and on the other hand they still live in medieval ages by decapitating or hanging...
those bloody rules are for normal people of course, the rich the famous and the royal family are God-like for a change
