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September 22, 2011
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A Saudi citizen was beheaded on Thursday after he was convicted of murder, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
Hamad al-Shahrani, who was found guilty of stabbing another man several times with a knife, was executed in the Aseer region in the southwest of the country.
The human rights watchdog Amnesty International said in a statement on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia has carried out at least 44 executions since January.
Shahrani’s execution brings the number of people beheaded in the ultra-conservative Gulf state this year to at least 45.
Amnesty, in a statement released after the execution on Tuesday of a Sudanese man convicted of “sorcery,” had called on the kingdom to establish an “immediate moratorium on executions.”
Saudi Arabia has “resumed executions at an alarming pace” since the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Amnesty said, adding that around 140 prisoners are believed to be facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
The rights group said Saudi Arabia was one of a minority of states that voted against a UN General Assembly resolution last December calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islamic Shariah law.
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