SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR SHOOTING DEAD POLICEMAN

A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword after being convicted of shooting dead a policeman over a traffic violation, the interior ministry said.
Mohsen al-Dussari had shot the officer when a police patrol tried to stop him as he drove against the flow of traffic, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
His beheading in Kharj near the Saudi capital Riyadh brings to 23 the number of executions reported this year in the Gulf kingdom.