SAUDI ARABIA: MAN DECAPITATED FOR MURDER

A Saudi man was decapitated by the sword in the eastern city of Dammam, in Saudi Arabia, after being sentenced to death for murdering another Saudi man, the government announced.
Saleh al-Ghamdi was executed after being convicted in the shooting death of Idha al-Jaid following a dispute, the interior ministry said in a statement published by the official SPA news agency.
It was the ninth reported execution of the year in Saudi Arabia.