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Riyadh: Saudi Arabia executed two citizens for murder on Monday, raising to 84 the number of death sentences the kingdom has carried out so far this year.
Baddah al-Dusari was found guilty of killing Saudi national Abdullah al-Qahtani by repeatedly running him over, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
Mansur al-Azuri was convicted of stabbing to death fellow citizen Saad al-Subaiee following a dispute, the ministry said in separate statement.
They were both executed in al-Kharj, near the capital Riyadh.
Most people put to death in Saudi Arabia are beheaded with a sword.
The executions so far this year include 47 for "terrorism" carried out in a single day on January 2.
In 2015, Saudi Arabia executed 153 people, most of them for drug trafficking or murder, according to an AFP count.
Human rights group Amnesty International says the number of executions in Saudi Arabia last year was the highest for two decades.
The kingdom is one of the world's top executioners, although its tally in 2015 was far behind those of China and Iran.
Saudi Arabia has a strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
AFP
