SAUDI ARABIA: ETHIOPIAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
February 2, 2016: Saudi Arabia executed an Ethiopian for murder, bringing to 58 the number of convicts put to death this year.
Khatar Doli Koji had been found guilty of beating another Ethiopian to death with a metal rod, and stealing money and a phone from him, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Authorities carried out the sentence against him in Riyadh. (Sources: Afp, 2/2/2016)
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