(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Saudi Arabia beheaded two of its citizens for murder Tuesday.
Mohammed al-Otaibi was convicted of shooting dead another Saudi, the interior ministry said in a statement on the official Saudi Press Agency.
Authorities carried out the sentence in Riyadh.
Separately, Turki al-Zahrani was put to death in the holy city of Mecca for stabbing dead a fellow Saudi, the ministry said.
The two cases brought to 102 the number of Saudi nationals and foreigners executed in the kingdom this year.
That compares with 87 for all of 2014, according to AFP tallies, but is still far below the record 192 which rights group Amnesty International said took place in 1995.
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