SAUDI ARABIA DECAPITATES MAN FOR MURDER
February 1, 2009: Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Saudi man convicted of fatally shooting a fellow citizen over a dispute. Jamal al-Shammari was executed in the northern city of Hayel after being convicted of murdering Mitaab al-Ghaithi, the Interior Ministry says in a statement without explaining the nature of the dispute. (Sources: International Herald Tribune, 01/02/2009)
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