13 June 2008 :

a Saudi Arabian man, condemned to death for murdering a compatriot, was beheaded in Bishah in the south of the kingdom after his victim's sons refused to accept blood money in exchange for his life. Mohammed al-Bishi was convicted of shooting dead Ali al-Aklabi after a row, said the interior ministry in a statement carried by the Saudi news agency SPA.
The ministry did not say when Bishi was sentenced but that his execution, by the sword, was carried out after the victim's sons, who could have pardoned him in exchange for cash compensation, refused clemency and insisted the death sentence be carried out. No details on the sons was provided.