Saudi beheads two for murder

Saudi authorities yesterday beheaded two nationals for murder, including one who stabbed his wife to death and burned her corpse, the interior ministry said.
The beheadings bring to 72 the number of people executed so far this year in the ultra-conservative kingdom, where 79 people were put to death in 2011, according to Amnesty International.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under its strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.