Saudi Arabia has
again beheaded a convicted drug trafficker.
This new beheading will make it the 77th state execution in the oil-rich kingdom
this year despite international concerns.
Nasser bin Amiq
Ali al-Inzi was convicted of trying to smuggle “a large amount” of amphetamines
into the country, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the
official Saudi Press Agency. He was
beheaded in the northern Jawf region.
Last Friday
authorities carried out the death sentence on another Saudi, also found guilty
of amphetamine smuggling. The interior
ministry said last week that authorities had seized more than 41 million
amphetamine tablets during the Islamic calendar year that ended in October.
Rape, murder,
apostasy and armed robbery are also punishable by death under the kingdom’s
strict version of Islamic sharia law.
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