SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS FILIPINO FOR MURDER

23 October 2008 :

the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry announced that Venancio Ladion, from the Philippines, was convicted of murdering a Saudi man in the holy city of Mecca by suffocating him and piercing his neck with a pen. He was executed by the sword.
 
(Sources: Fox News, 14/10/2008)

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