{"id":62281,"date":"2013-04-10T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/04\/saudi-beheads-convicted-murderer\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:16:12","slug":"saudi-beheads-convicted-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/04\/10\/saudi-beheads-convicted-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi beheads convicted murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry_wrap fix\" readability=\"35.732838589981\">\n<div class=\"entry_content\" readability=\"44.636859323882\">\n<p>RIYADH (AFP) \u2013 Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens Wednesday in the eastern province of Qatif after he was convicted of murdering a fellow Saudi, the interior ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Ali al-Saeedi shot dead Ali Abdelhay during a dispute, said the statement published by the official SPA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The execution takes to 32 the number of people put to death in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP count.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the kingdom executed 76 people, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. The US-based Human Rights Watch put the number at 69.<\/p>\n<p>Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia\u2019s strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<p><noscript readability=\"1.15625\"><\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript=vanguardngr\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript> <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">blog comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> RIYADH (AFP) \u2013 Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens Wednesday in the eastern province of Qatif after he was convicted of murdering a fellow Saudi, the interior ministry said. Ali al-Saeedi shot dead Ali Abdelhay during a dispute, said the statement published by the official SPA news agency. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}