SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

Justice Square in Riyadh

09 June 2011 :

Saudi Arabia beheaded a man convicted of murder in the capital Riyadh, the interior ministry announced.
Hanif Otaibi, a Saudi national, was sentenced to death for shooting and stabbing fellow citizen Hilal al-Jaeed during a dispute it said in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA.

(Sources: AFP, 08/06/2011)

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