SAUDI ARABIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDERING COUNTRYMAN OVER DISPUTE

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

10 April 2007 :

a Saudi man convicted of fatally shooting another Saudi over a dispute was beheaded, the Interior Ministry said. The executed man, Hatem Bin Mohammed al-Mestadi, had gotten into a fight with the victim, who was identified by the state news agency SPA as Masoud Bin Ali Aljahni. The nature of the dispute was not disclosed. Al-Mestadi was beheaded in the Western port city of Jiddah.
 

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