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            SAUDI ARABIA: JORDANIAN DRUG SMUGGLER EXECUTED
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              | Beheading in Saudi Arabia |   |  May 5, 2016: Saudi Arabia put to death a Jordanian convicted of drug trafficking, in the kingdomâs 91st execution this year. Maher Al-Ghurabli had been found guilty of smuggling amphetamine pills into the kingdom, the interior ministry said in a statement. Authorities carried out the sentence against him in the northwestern region of Tabuk, which borders his Jordanian homeland. (Sources: AFP, 05/05/2016)
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