[Pak Daily Times]  Soddy Arabia has beheaded a man in the Eastern Province convicted of killing his father, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Hassan bin Ali bin Hassan al Abandi was convicted of having set his parents' house on fire "in an attempt to kill his mother following an argument between them", said the statement. His disabled father died and his mother was injured, it said. The execution brings to 11 the number of reported beheadings in the kingdom this year. In 2010, 27 executions were reported, down from 67 in 2009 and 102 in 2008. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the kingdom's sharia law. |