February 22, 2010 - A Saudi man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword in the eastern province of Dammam on Monday, the interior ministry announced. Fayhan al-Sabi was sentenced to death for gunning down a fellow Saudi, Samhan al-Sabi, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. It was the seventh execution announced in the conservative Muslim kingdom so far in 2010. Sixty-seven people were executed in Saudi Arabia in 2009, while 102 were put to death in 2008. In 2007, a record 153 people were executed. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of sharia, or Islamic law. Click below for story.
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