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SAUDI MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

06 March 2009 :

authorities beheaded a Saudi Arabian man convicted of murdering his mother and an Indonesian maid.
An Interior Ministry statement says Mohammad bin Salem was executed in the city of Najran after being convicted for shooting to death his mother and the maid under the influence of hashish. The statement says he thought the women were casting spells on him.
 
(Sources: International Herald Tribune, 03/03/2009)

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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.