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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·OCTOBER 27, 2011
Saudi Arabia

SAUDI ARABIA: TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR MURDER

Saudi Arabia beheaded two men convicted of murder, one who ran over his victims and the other who deliberately hit his victim's car, the interior ministry announced.

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Saudi Arabia beheaded two men convicted of murder, one who ran over his victims and the other who deliberately hit his victim's car, the interior ministry announced. Mohammed al-Harbi, a Saudi national, was convicted of "intentionally running over" and killing a Saudi couple—Rabih al-Asiri and his wife Nasila Asiri, the Saudi interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
He was beheaded in the kingdom's western province of Qunfudah.
In a separate statement, the ministry said that another man, Abdullah al-Jahdali, was also beheaded in another western province, Al-Laith, after he was found guilty of intentionally hitting Fahd al-Jahdali's car and killing him.
The executions bring to 67 the number of those beheaded this year in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom.
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  • (Sources: Afp, 27/10/2011)