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30 June 2009 :

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a man convicted of stabbing his wife to death during a domestic quarrel.
An Interior Ministry statement said Ahmed al-Harbi was beheaded in the western port city of Jeddah.

(Sources: Taiwan News, 27/06/2009)

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