The Saudi government may abandon public beheading as the form of execution in favor of shooting its criminals, the influential daily Al-Watan daily reported. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the word still practicing beheadings. Crimes including murder, armed robbery, rape, trafficking in drugs and many others are punishable by death in the gulf country, with more than 75 people given capital sentences annually in the past few years.
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