SAUDI ARABIA CARRIES OUT 90TH EXECUTION OF YEAR
May 4, 2016: Saudi Arabia beheaded a citizen convicted of murder taking the number of people executed in the Kingdom this year to 90.
Mufreh Al Harissi was found guilty of stabbing to death a fellow Saudi during a dispute, the interior ministry said in a statement published by the SPA news agency.
The sentence was carried out in the south-western Jazan province. (Sources: Agence France-Presse, 04/05/2016)
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