Saudi Arabia
on Monday executed an Ethiopian woman convicted of killing a Saudi child, the
interior ministry said. It was the 124th execution of a foreigner or Saudi this
year in the kingdom, according to an AFP tally of ministry statements.
Zamzam
Abdullah Boric was put to death in Riyadh after being found guilty, the
ministry said. Boric cut the girl’s throat “and left her in the bathroom until
she died”, the ministry said, without giving a motive for the crime or stating
the Ethiopian’s occupation. Ethiopians are among the millions of expatriates
employed in the oil-rich kingdom. Many work as domestic helpers.
Most people
put to death in Saudi Arabia are beheaded with a sword. Saudi Arabia has a
strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery,
rape and apostasy are all punishable by death. Amnesty International says the
kingdom carried out at least 158 death sentences in 2015, making it the third
most prolific executioner after Iran and Pakistan.
Amnesty’s figures do not
include secretive China. Murder and drug trafficking cases account for the
majority of Saudi executions, although 47 people were put to death for
“terrorism” on a single day in January.
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