Saudi Executed for Murder
Saudi Arabia beheaded a citizen on Tuesday after convicting him of murdering a compatriot, the interior ministry said.
Faris al-Qahtani was found guilty of shooting dead Hadi al-Yami and stealing his money and car, the ministry said in a statement carried by official Saudi Press Agency.
His execution in the southwestern province of Abha was the 69th in the kingdom so far this year.
That compares with 87 in the whole of 2014 in what Amnesty International has called a "macabre spike" in the kingdom's use of the death penalty.
The London-based human rights group ranked Saudi Arabia among the top three executioners in the world last year.
Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death under the kingdom's strict version of Islamic sharia law.
Source: Agence France Presse
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