SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR STABBING FATHER TO DEATH

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

22 December 2009 :

Saudi Arabian national Khaled bin Saleh al-Owfi was beheaded by the sword in Mecca after being convicted of stabbing his father to death, an Interior Ministry statement carried by the SPA state news agency said. Al-Owfi also injured his brother after consuming pills of banned stimulant Captagon.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 21/12/2009)

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