3 men convicted of murdering a fellow Pakistani were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the interior ministry announced.
Mohammed Akram Shafi, Mohammed Kamran Qassem and Asghar Ali Abdulaziz were executed in the central city of Burida for murdering Mohammed Firyad Mohammed, it said, quoted by the state news agency SPA.
It said the trio had kidnapped Mohammed who worked as a courier for a jewelry shop to steal his money and the gold he was carrying. They took him out to a deserted area, where he was struck on the head with a stone until he died.
The beheadings brought to 22 the number of executions announced since the start of the year, according to an AFP tally. 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: Agence France-Presse, April 7, 2009
Mohammed Akram Shafi, Mohammed Kamran Qassem and Asghar Ali Abdulaziz were executed in the central city of Burida for murdering Mohammed Firyad Mohammed, it said, quoted by the state news agency SPA.
It said the trio had kidnapped Mohammed who worked as a courier for a jewelry shop to steal his money and the gold he was carrying. They took him out to a deserted area, where he was struck on the head with a stone until he died.
The beheadings brought to 22 the number of executions announced since the start of the year, according to an AFP tally. 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: Agence France-Presse, April 7, 2009
No comments:
Post a Comment