Saudi executes Iraqi man for murder
Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed an Iraqi man convicted of murder, the interior ministry said.
Wissam al-Mahssanawi was found guilty of shooting dead Emirati national Mohammed al-Amiri and stealing his car, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
He was executed in the northeastern city of Hafr al-Baten.
The kingdom practices a strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
Caption : Saudi's Interior Ministry
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