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09 May, 2007
RIYADH (AFP) - An Ethiopian woman was beheaded by the sword on Wednesday in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for murdering an Egyptian man, the interior ministry said.
Khadija Ibrahim Musa was found guilty of killing Mohammed Abdullah Kamal Shaheen by stabbing him in the neck while he was asleep and hitting him on the head with a bottle, it said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
The latest beheading brings to 58 the number of executions announced by the Saudi government so far this year.
For the whole of 2006, at least 37 people were executed, while 83 were put to death in 2005 and 35 the year before, according to AFP tallies based on official statements.
Executions are usually carried out in public in Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict form of sharia, or Islamic law. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty.