MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) – A Saudi man has been beheaded after murdering a fellow tribesman, according to the country’s interior ministry, AFP reported.
The beheading is the latest in several dozens of other executions that occurred in Saudi Arabia this year.
The man executed was identified as Saudi national Hadi bin Rashid al-Dosari, who was previously convicted for killing another man, after the pair had a dispute, AFP said.
The sentence transpired in the town of Al-Ihsa. This has raised the number of death sentences in the country to 62, the source said.
Crimes, such as rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Sharia law. Human rights activists are worried by the country’s penal system. In September, a UN expert called for a moratorium on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, AFP reported.
However, there are those who defend the Saudi death penalty, claiming that beheadings carried out with a single sword stroke are as humane as the lethal injections administered in the United States, Reuters said.
