SAUDI ARABIA: TWO BEHEADED FOR MURDER

28 November 2012 :

Saudi authorities beheaded two nationals for murder, including one who stabbed his wife to death and burned her corpse, the interior ministry said. The beheadings bring to 72 the number of people executed so far this year in the ultra-conservative kingdom.

(Sources: AFP, 28/11/2012)

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