SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
May 19, 2009: Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Saudi national for a murder resulting from a dispute. The Interior Ministry says Abdul-Aziz bin Yahia was executed in the al-Dawadmi district of the capital Riyadh for stabbing to death his compatriot Khaled al-Saab. It didn't elaborate on the nature of the dispute. (Sources: Taiwan News Online, 19/05/2009)
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