SAUDI BEHEADED FOR BEATING HIS WIFE TO DEATH

23 October 2008 :

a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword in the southern province of Jazan after being convicted of beating his wife to death, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
Moussa bin Qassem Dahesh was found guilty of killing his Yemeni wife, Aysah bint Ahmed Awaji, by hitting her repeatedly with a cane on her head and other parts of her body.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 22/10/2008)

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