House help executed for killing employer’s child
Saudi authorities on Monday executed an Ethiopian housemaid convicted of killing the child of her employer more than three years ago, the Interior Ministry said.
The ministry noted in a statement that the execution was carried out after the death sentence was endorsed by the king.
Meanwhile the convict had confessed having knifed to death the six-year-old girl in June 2013, allegedly in retaliation for her family’s ill-treatment.
The ministry noted in a statement that the execution was carried out after the death sentence was endorsed by the king.
Meanwhile the convict had confessed having knifed to death the six-year-old girl in June 2013, allegedly in retaliation for her family’s ill-treatment.
Monday’s beheading brings to 119 the total number of executions
so far this year in the conservative kingdom.
According to international rights
groups, Saudi Arabia is among the top executioners in the world.
On Jan. 2, authorities beheaded
47 people, including a prominent Shiite cleric, on terrorism-related charges.
Report says Saudi Arabia has
imposed death penalty for murder, armed robbery, banditry, rape,
drug-trafficking and witchcraft.
The kingdom, which applies a strict interpretation of Islamic
law, has repeatedly rejected calls to end the death penalty, saying the
punishment deters would-be offenders.
NAN/Daily Post
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