Saudi Arabia has executed an American citizen convicted of killing his father
ByThe Related Press
August 16, 2023, 11:36 AM
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The Related Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed an American citizen who had been convicted of killing his father.
The Inside Ministry recognized the executed man as Bishoy Sharif Naji Naseef and mentioned he beat after which strangled his Egyptian father to dying. It additionally mentioned Naseef used narcotics, mutilated his father’s physique after his slaying and tried to kill one other individual earlier than his arrest.
The assertion didn’t determine how Naseef was executed. Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia sometimes beheads these sentenced to dying.
A lawyer for Naseef couldn’t be instantly recognized. It wasn’t recognized if Naseef had a house deal with in the USA.
The U.S. State Division didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
Saudi Arabia ranks among the many world’s high executioners behind China and Iran in 2022, in line with statistics from Amnesty Worldwide. Although executions slowed through the top of the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve surged lately. In March 2022, the dominion executed 81 folks on the identical day, the most important recognized mass execution carried out within the kingdom in its fashionable historical past.
