13 March 2015 :
The beheading of a gang leader in Saudi Arabia raised the number of executions carried out this year to 44, already more than half the total for 2014.Mansour bin Habeeb bin Mahdi Khalfan, a Saudi, was put to death on March 12 in the kingdom's eastern region after having been convicted of "leading a gang" dealing in hashish, money laundering and forged documents, the interior ministry said.
According to an AFP tally, Khalfan was the 44th local or foreigner executed this year in Saudi Arabia.
(Sources: AFP, 12/03/2015)
