SAUDI ARABIA: A PAKISTANI AND TWO SAUDIS BEHEADED

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

18 March 2015 :

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani and two Saudis, bringing to 48 the number of death sentences carried out this year. That is more than half of the 87 people executed during all of 2014.
Pakistani national Mumtaz Hussein Deen Ahmed was executed in Medina after his conviction for smuggling heroin, the interior ministry said.
Najr bin Farajal Azmial Otaibi, a Saudi, was put to death in the city of Taif for stoning and caning to death another man.
Another Saudi, Moeid bin Ali bin Moeidal Saadal Qahtani, was beheaded in Eastern Province for gunning down a man.
The ministry added that the execution of both Saudis was delayed until the children of their victims came of age to decide whether the sentences should be carried out.
 

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