2 convicted murderers were beheaded by the sword on Tuesday, including a Saudi man who beat his wife to death, the interior ministry said.
Omar Bin Abid Wakdani, who was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, had "beat his wife until she was dead following a family argument," the ministry said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency.
It said a 2nd execution was carried out in Qurait, in the northeast of the kingdom, where Fawzi bin Abd al-Badi was beheaded for shooting dead a fellow Saudi.
The beheadings bring to 82 the number of executions announced by Saudi Arabia this year.
In a report last week, human rights group Amnesty International said the Saudi government "continues to execute people at an average of more than 2 a week."
Almost 1/2 of them are migrant laborers from poor and developing countries, the London-based watchdog said.
Last year, a record 153 people were executed in the conservative Muslim kingdom, which applies a strict version of sharia, or Islamic law. This figure compared with 37 in 2006 and the previous record of 113 in 2000.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in the oil-rich Gulf state, where executions are usually carried out in public.
Source: Agence France Presse
Omar Bin Abid Wakdani, who was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, had "beat his wife until she was dead following a family argument," the ministry said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency.
It said a 2nd execution was carried out in Qurait, in the northeast of the kingdom, where Fawzi bin Abd al-Badi was beheaded for shooting dead a fellow Saudi.
The beheadings bring to 82 the number of executions announced by Saudi Arabia this year.
In a report last week, human rights group Amnesty International said the Saudi government "continues to execute people at an average of more than 2 a week."
Almost 1/2 of them are migrant laborers from poor and developing countries, the London-based watchdog said.
Last year, a record 153 people were executed in the conservative Muslim kingdom, which applies a strict version of sharia, or Islamic law. This figure compared with 37 in 2006 and the previous record of 113 in 2000.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in the oil-rich Gulf state, where executions are usually carried out in public.
Source: Agence France Presse
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