From correspondents in Riyadh | April 07
THREE men convicted of murdering a fellow Pakistani were beheaded by a sword in Saudi Arabia today.
Mohammed Akram Shafi, Mohammed Kamran Qassem and Asghar Ali Abdulaziz were executed in the central city of Burida for murdering Mohammed Firyad Mohammed, state news agency SPA reported.
The trio had kidnapped Mohammed who worked as a courier for a jewellery shop to steal his money, before stoning him to death.
The beheadings brought to 22 the number of executions announced since the start of the year.
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: The Australian
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