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    Saudi Arabia Executions

    A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword on Saturday after being convicted of shooting dead a policeman over a traffic violation, the interior ministry said.

    Mohsen al-Dussari had shot the officer when a police patrol tried to stop him as he drove against the flow of traffic, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

    His beheading in Kharj near the Saudi capital Riyadh brings to 23 the number of executions reported this year in the Gulf kingdom.

    In 2009, 67 executions were reported in Saudi Arabia, compared with 102 in 2008.

    Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.

    (source: Agence France-Presse)

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    Man executed for murder of compatriot

    A Saudi man sentenced to death for killing a fellow citizen was beheaded on Tuesday in the Red Sea industrial city of Yanbu, said the interior ministry.

    Mitaab Al Sanani, shot dead another Saudi, Nayef Al Dhabiani, the ministry said in a statement published through state news agency SPA, without giving further details.

    The execution was the 26th this year reported in Saudi Arabia, according to an AFP count. In 2009, 67 executions were reported, compared with 102 in 2008.

    http://www.emirates247.com/news/worl...12-21-1.332201

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