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SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI PUT TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN 73RD EXECUTION
March 16, 2016: A Saudi national convicted of murder was executed, bringing to 73 the number of people put to death in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom this year, the interior ministry said. Omar al-Rabie was found guilty of shooting to death Ghanem Salem following a dispute, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA. (Sources: Agence France-Presse, 16/03/2016)
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