SAUDI ARABIA: YEMENI BEHEADED FOR GARROTTING COMPATRIOT

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

15 April 2009 :

a Yemeni was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia for garrotting a compatriot with a length of wire in a dispute over money, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the SPA news agency.
Fikri Mohammed Hassan Saleh was executed in the southwestern town of Jazan for killing a fellow Yemeni, identified only as Najib.
Saleh was allegedly under the influence of alcohol when he committed the crimes.
 

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