SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
March 16, 2009: a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword for shooting dead a Bangladeshi farm worker in the Muslim holy city of Medina, the interior ministry said. Hamud bin Awadh al-Matiri was found guilty of killing Shahin Khan Himayat Eddine and stealing 25 sheep from the farm where the victim worked. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 16/03/2009)
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