SAUDI ARABIA. EGYPTIAN BEHEADED FOR RAPE, MURDER
April 18, 2005: Saudi Arabia executed Emad al-Wakil, an Egyptian man, for raping and killing a woman, the country’s interior ministry said. A ministry statement said Emad was executed in the capital Riyadh after he broke into the house of another Egyptian and raped, beat and strangled the man's wife.
He then stole money and gold jewellery from the house and fled, but was arrested. (Sources: Reuters, 18/04/2005)
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