RIYADH // A Saudi man was beheaded Tuesday for torturing and beating his two-year-old boy to death, the interior ministry said.
Maqbul bin Madi Al Sharari hit his son Mohammed “repeatedly with a cane on the back of his head and the rest of his body,” the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
He also punched the toddler in the face repeatedly and “burnt him in different parts of his body, torturing him several times, which led to his death,” the ministry said.
Sharari’s execution in the northern Jawf region, brings to 18 the number of death sentences carried out this year in the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia beheaded 78 people in 2013, according to an AFP count.
* Agence France-Presse
