SAUDI ARABIA: 130TH EXECUTION THIS YEAR CARRIED OUT
Saudi authorities put to death a convicted murderer, bringing to 130 the number of executions in the kingdom so far this year
Saudi authorities put to death a convicted murderer, bringing to 130 the number of executions in the kingdom so far this year, according to an AFP tally.
Saudi citizen Mashari al-Shammari was found guilty of killing fellow tribesman Sufouq al-Shammari in a frenzied attack with a gun, a dagger and a stick, the interior ministry said in a statement to a news agency. He was put to death in the northeastern town of Hafr al-Baten, close to the Iraqi border.
The 130 executions carried out in Saudi Arabia so far this year far exceeds the 87 counted in the whole of 2014.
Saudi citizen Mashari al-Shammari was found guilty of killing fellow tribesman Sufouq al-Shammari in a frenzied attack with a gun, a dagger and a stick, the interior ministry said in a statement to a news agency. He was put to death in the northeastern town of Hafr al-Baten, close to the Iraqi border.
The 130 executions carried out in Saudi Arabia so far this year far exceeds the 87 counted in the whole of 2014.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: AFP, 3/9/2015)