Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed a Yemeni man for murdering and robbing his employer.
Yaser Qawza broke into the home of his Saudi employer Falwa al-Jarad, tied her up and beat her to death before robbing her money and jewellery, according to an interior ministry statement.
Qawza was executed in the southern region of Aseer, said the statement, published by the official SPA news agency.
Most executions in the country are carried out by beheading with a sword.
The kingdom practises a strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
On January 2, the kingdom executed 47 men convicted of “terrorism”, including Al-Qaeda-linked Sunni militants and Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, whose death sparked a diplomatic crisis with Iran.
