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SAUDI ARABIA. CITIZEN BEHEADED FOR KILLING COMPATRIOT

17 March 2008 :

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a man convicted of fatally shooting a fellow citizen. The Interior Ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Kahtani was executed in the eastern Saudi town of al-Khobar.
The man shot the victim, Musfir bin Habad al-Dowsary, several times using an automatic weapon after a dispute.
 
(Sources: Jerusalem Post, 16/03/2008)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.