Saudi executes man after 30 years on death row

February 06, 2013 02:04

Saudi Arabia beheaded today a man who had been on death row for three decades for beating to death a fellow Saudi, after the victim's family denied him clemency. Abdullah bin Fandi al-Shammari was executed in the northern town of Hael, the official SPA news agency said.

Shammari was 23 when he was arrested and jailed for beating to death Moojab bin Mohammed al-Rashidi after a row. His trial dragged on for five years and at the time the court set him free and ordered him to pay the victim's family "blood money" after ruling Rashidi's death was involuntary homicide.

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