Summary Anad al-Amrani had been found guilty of smuggling a large number of pills into the country.
RIYADH (AFP) - A Saudi convicted of trafficking drugs was beheaded Friday at Tabuk in the northwest of the conservative desert kingdom, the interior ministry said.
Anad al-Amrani had been found guilty of smuggling a large number of pills into the country, said a ministry statement cited by the official SPA news agency.
Friday s beheading takes to 77 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an AFP count.
In 2012, Saudi Arabia carried out 76 executions, according to a tally based on official figures. Rights group Amnesty International put last year s figure at 79.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the oil-rich nation s strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.
