Riyadh - A Saudi man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword on Wednesday in Mecca, the interior ministry announced.
Redha bin Abid bin Abdullah Almabadi had stabbed to death Ahmed bin Mohammad al-Harbi in an argument, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
The statement gave no other details about the crime.
It was the Kingdom's 2nd announced execution of 2010, after 67 people were put to death last year and 102 in 2008.
Under the strict version of Islamic sharia law enforced in Saudi Arabia, the death penalty can be imposed for rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.
Source: Agence France-Presse, January 14, 2010
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