A Saudi man was beheaded in Riyadh on Monday after being convicted of murder, the Interior Ministry said. Massud Bin Ali Al-Qahtani was sentenced to death for shooting another man, Misfir Bin Ajim Al-Qahtani, it said in a statement. Further details about the crime and the conviction were not disclosed. Under Saudi Arabia's Sharia system of Islamic justice, the death penalty can be applied to crimes of rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.