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SAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
May 18, 2009: a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded in Riyadh after being convicted of murder, the interior ministry said.
Massud bin Ali al-Qahtani was sentenced to death for shooting another man, Misfir bin Ajim al-Qahtani, it said in a statement carried by the SPA state news agency. Further details about the crime and the conviction were not disclosed. (Sources: Inside the Gulf, 18/05/2009)
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