The convict’s execution has raised the number of beheadings so far to 24 people
A Syrian national has been beheaded in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, Saudi Arabia after he was found guilty of drug trafficking.
The official news agency, SPA, says that the convict, Safwan Hindawi, was arrested while trying to smuggle a “large amount of narcotic pills into the kingdom.”He was given the capital punishment - death by beheading.
His execution has raised the number of beheadings so far to 24 in the Islamic country.
In 2013 alone there were 78 executions. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of Islamic sharia law.
Meting out capital punishment in the Muslim kingdom has beencondemned by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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