RIYADH — A man convicted of murdering his wife and a Syrian drug smuggler were executed in the Kingdom on Tuesday. Saudi national Awad Al-Rasheedi was executed in Dammam following his conviction for stabbing his wife to death, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency. "Because he had previous drug-related arrests and because he attacked the closest person to him, his wife, he was sentenced to death," the ministry said. Syrian national Mohammed Abdul Hadi Ahmed, who had been convicted of trying to smuggle amphetamines into the Kingdom, was also executed in the northern Al-Jouf region, the ministry said. — SG/SPA
