Two beheaded for drug smuggling
25/10/2007 15:55  - (SA)  

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Man beheaded for murder Two drug smugglers beheaded 2 beheaded for murder, robbery Saudi man beheaded for murder

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia beheaded two Pakistanis convicted of crimes in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

Bakhityar Khan was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for drug smuggling, while Shahid Jameel was also put to death in the city for murder, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Their executions took to 126 the number of people put to death by Saudi Arabia this year, outstripping the previous record of 113 during all of 2000.

Last year 37 people were beheaded.

Executions are usually carried out in public in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict form of sharia, or Islamic law.

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty.

- AFP

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