SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
June 8, 2008: Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said it beheaded a man convicted of murdering a fellow citizen after a dispute. A ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency says Khalid Assouni was executed in Jiddah for stabbing Abdou al-Duweiri to death. The statement did not explain the nature of the dispute. (Sources: International Herald Tribune, 08/06/2008)
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