(MENAFN- Arab Times) Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani convicted of drug smuggling on Friday, the 73rd execution in the kingdom so far this year. Shirin Khan Abbas Khan was put to death in Riyadh province after being found guilty of smuggling heroin into the kingdom in swallowed balloons, the interior ministry said. In the whole of 2014, Saudi Arabia carried out 87 executions, and Amnesty International has spoken of a "macabre spike" in the kingdom's use of the death penalty this year.
Meanwhile, a Saudi national who shot dead a member of the security forces was among three people beheaded in the kingdom on Thursday, the interior ministry said. Authorities executed Fayez al- Atwi in Riyadh after his conviction for gunning down the security man while he was on duty, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Another Saudi, Abdullah al- Balawi, was beheaded for stabbing his father to death, the interior ministry said. The third person executed was Abdullah al-Ruwaili, a Saudi found guilty of "smuggling a large amount of banned amphetamine pills," said the ministry.
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