A statement by the Saudi Interior Ministry revealed that authorities beheaded an Ethiopian woman for killing an Egyptian over an argument.
Khadija Bint Ibrahim Moussa was found guilty of fatally stabbing Mohammad Kamal Shaheen and sentenced to death, becoming this year’s first woman to be executed since the execution of two women in 2005.
Moussa had stabbed Shaheen in the neck while he was asleep and then beat his head with a glass bottle. She was executed in the Red Sea port city of Jiddah.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and armed robbery can be executed. Beheadings are carried out with a sword in a public square.
Wednesday’s executions brought to 57 the number of people beheaded in the kingdom this year. The kingdom beheaded 38 people last year and 83 people in 2005.
