17 January 2008 :

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a couple for murder, the Interior Ministry announced. The ministry said Nashaat Ben Suleiman Ben Ahmedhaji and his wife Iman Bent Ali Ghazawi were beheaded after being convicted of killing Ahmedhaji's daughter from a first marriage, according to a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. The statement said the couple tortured and burned 9 year old Ghosson Ahmedhaji because her father had suspicions that she wasn't his legitimate daughter.