Aug. 08, 2014 | 01:07 PM
Saudi beheads convicted drug trafficker
Agence France Presse
RIYADH: A Saudi convicted of drug trafficking was beheaded by the sword Friday in the northwestern city of Tabuk, the interior ministry announced.
The Ministry, in a statement carried by state news agency SPA, said Eid al-Umairi was found guilty of having dealt with “large quantities of amphetamines.”
His beheading raised to 21 the number of executions so far this year in the conservative Muslim kingdom, according to an AFP count based on official reports.