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SAUDI ARABIA: 130TH EXECUTION THIS YEAR CARRIED OUT

September 3, 2015: Saudi authorities put to death a convicted murderer, bringing to 130 the number of executions in the kingdom so far this year, according to an AFP tally.
Saudi citizen Mashari al-Shammari was found guilty of killing fellow tribesman Sufouq al-Shammari in a frenzied attack with a gun, a dagger and a stick, the interior ministry said in a statement to a news agency. He was put to death in the northeastern town of Hafr al-Baten, close to the Iraqi border.
The 130 executions carried out in Saudi Arabia so far this year far exceeds the 87 counted in the whole of 2014. (Sources: AFP, 3/9/2015)