19 July 2005 :
Ali bin Ahmad bin Hashidi Shuhaythi, a Saudi man, was beheaded by the sword in the holy city of Mecca, for strangling to death a teenager, the Saudi interior ministry announced. He had been convicted of killing Ibrahim bin Jaber bin Ahmad Oqaili by "strangling him to death following a row".(Sources: Agence France Presse, 18/07/2005)