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SAUDI EXECUTES MURDERER, 147TH DEATH SENTENCE THIS YEAR

13 November 2015 :

Saudi Arabia executed one of its citizens convicted of murder.
Nasser al-Qahtani was put to death in Eastern Province after being convicted of shooting dead another Saudi, the interior ministry said in a statement.
According to AFP tallies, he is the 147th local or foreigner put to death this year, against 87 for all of 2014.
 
(Sources: Afp, 12/11/2015)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.