(MENAFN- Arab Times) A Saudi national who murdered his father and a drug trafficker were beheaded Thursday, bringing to 71 the number of executions carried out this year in the kingdom, the government said. The number compares with 87 in the whole of 2014, according to an AFP tally. Abdullah al-Balawi was beheaded after being convicted of stabbing his father to death, the interior ministry said, cited by the official Saudi Press Agency. SPA said he had planned the murder, but it did not say what his motives may have been
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