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beheaded a citizen
convicted of torturing his
wife to death, in the first
execution since the start of
the Muslim fasting month of
Ramadan, state media said.
Fawzi al-Khaibari had been
found guilty of beating up
and burning his wife with an
iron before "crushing her
skull" and leaving her to die,
the interior ministry said in a
statement carried by the
official SPA news agency.
He was beheaded in the
holy Muslim city of Medina,
in the west of the Gulf
country.
It was the first reported
execution in the
conservative kingdom since
July 8, two days before the
start of Ramadan which
ended last week.
A total of 58 people have
now been executed in Saudi
Arabia since the start of the
year, according to an
Agence France Presse count.
In 2012, the Gulf country
executed 76 people,
according to a tally based on
official figures. Human
Rights Watch has put the
number at 69.
Rape, murder, apostasy,
armed robbery and drug
trafficking are all punishable
by death under Saudi
Arabia's strict version of
sharia, or Islamic law.
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