SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI EXECUTED FOR MURDER AND ARMED ROBBERY

20 February 2008 :

a Saudi man, Rashed bin Rafia, was beheaded by the sword in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after he was found guilty of fatally shooting two men (an Indian and a Yemeni) during an armed robbery.
The Saudi Interior Ministry announced the execution in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 19/02/2008)

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