SAUDI ARABIA: PRISONER DIES DAY BEFORE EXECUTION

A convicted killer in a Saudi jail was found dead a day before he was to be executed. An inmate in another prison died just a day before he was to be freed.
Guards found the killer dead at the central prison in the eastern port of Dammam just a day before he was to be beheaded. In another prison in the southern town of Bisha, an inmate was found dead a day before he was to be released.
“Forensic examination of the prisoner who was to be executed showed no criminal act was behind his death,” said Captain Nassir Abdullah Al Harbi, a spokesman for the Saudi prisons directorate.
“He just felt some pain in the chest and was taken to hospital where he was reported dead,” he told the Saudi Sharq newspaper.