IOL.CO.ZA: Riyadh - A Saudi man was beheaded in the Muslim holy city of Medina after being sentenced to death for killing his father, the interior ministry said.
Ahmad al-Khyeeri was put to death on Monday for shooting his father in a dispute, the ministry said in a statement on the official SPA news agency.
The announcement did not say when the murder occurred.
The beheading brought to 13 the number of executions announced by the Saudi authorities since the beginning of the year.
A total of 102 people were executed last year and a record 153 in 2007.
Under Saudi Arabia's strict sharia system of Islamic justice, the death penalty can be applied to crimes of rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking. [Source: IOL.co.za] AFP | Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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