Beheading in Saudi Arabia

SAUDI ARABIA. TWO SAUDIS, THREE YEMENIS BEHEADED FOR MURDER

September 11, 2006: two Saudis and three Yemenis were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia on after they were convicted of murder, the interior ministry said. One Saudi was executed for killing his wife and the other for murdering his father.
Hassan bin Awadh al-Qahtani was found guilty of beating his pregnant wife to death with a variety of instruments after strapping her down and was beheaded in the southwestern Asir region. Mubarak bin Faris al-Mudhaibri was executed in the Qassim region north of Riyadh after he was found guilty of killing his father after an argument.
All three Yemenis found guilty of murder were executed in Jeddah on the Red Sea.
One of them, Munir bin Seif bin Abdullah, was convicted of fatally shooting Adel bin Balgith Hakmi, a Saudi, after a dispute, the interior ministry said.
Another Yemeni national, Abdulrahim bin Omar Martaa, was beheaded by the sword after he was convicted of shooting dead Egyptian Issam bin Zaki Shehata during an armed robbery of a house. The third Yemeni, Mohammad bin Noman bin Hassan, was executed for killing a Pakistani taxi driver, Malek Mohammad Akram, with the complicity of a Sudanese man, while both were drunk, with the intent of stealing his money. The Sudanese man, who fired the fatal shots from the Yemeni's gun, had already been convicted and executed for the murder. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 11/09/2006)