SAUDI ARABIA: TWO BROTHERS BEHEADED FOR MURDER

Two brothers sentenced to death for murdering a fellow Saudi were decapitated by the sword in the city of Jeddah, the interior ministry said.
Mohammed and Selim al-Madhiribi al-Shamali were convicted of hitting Saad al-Madhiribi on the head with a hammer and then stabbing him to death in a business dispute, it said in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA.
Their beheadings took to 19 the total number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom so far this year, according to a tally based on official reports.