SAUDI ARABIA: MURDERER PUT TO DEATH IN 72ND EXECUTION OF 2016

14 March 2016 :

Saudi Arabia executed one of its nationals convicted of murder, bringing to 72 the number of people put to death in the kingdom this year.
Hadian al-Qahtani was found guilty of shooting dead Abdullah al-Qaoud following a dispute, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.

(Sources: AFP, 13/03/2016)

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