Saudi Arabia Beheads Drug Trafficker-Slayer
<i> Reuters</i>
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia —
A Saudi Arabian drug trafficker convicted of murder and other crimes was beheaded in public after Friday noon prayers, Radio Riyadh reported.
It quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying the decapitated body of Rashash Saif Mubarak al-Utaibi was then crucified.
The statement said Utaibi had shot and killed a member of the security forces during a battle with a drug-dealing ring that he led.
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