Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·OCTOBER 13, 2008
Saudi Arabia

SAUDI MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

a Saudi man was beheaded by the sword after being found guilty of the murder of a fellow countryman, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.

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a Saudi man was beheaded by the sword after being found guilty of the murder of a fellow countryman, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. Hassan bin Awadh al-Bariqi was executed in the southern province of Assyr for shooting dead Mohammad bin Khedhr al-Bariqi after a dispute, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. It did not say if the two men were related.
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  • (Sources: Agence France Presse, 13/10/2008)