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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 7, 2005
Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi woman

Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi woman for murdering her mother-in-law

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Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi woman for murdering her mother-in-law by setting her on fire while she slept, the country’s Interior Ministry said.
A ministry statement carried on the state news agency SPA did not say how Noora bint Khalaf al-Harbi had set her mother-in-law on fire but said the crime was carried out after a dispute between the two Saudi women.
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  • (Sources: Reuters, 07/02/2005)