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Judge announces reserved ruling; says suspect's father helped him, deliberately concealed important information

Yousuf Ali was returning home after committing the crime when he was intercepted by police

Man chopped up his wife’s sister-in-law into eight pieces, tossed pieces into Pinyari Canal

'The killer has spent two years in the jails of Aseer'

Kingdom also executes five Saudi nationals for homicide – the highest number of executions in a single day this year

The Abu Sayyaf Group is known to behead its hostages unless ransom payments are made

The 54-year-old man, identified by his family name Lin, beheaded his sister with a kitchen knife.

Sar-e Pol has been under Taliban control since 1998

Attack is the latest in a spate of attacks on members of the country's lowest caste

He had a knife, a 'jihad' flag and a mind corrupted by lunatic clerics

Ali al-Nimr is among more than 50 people at increased risk of soon being put to death in a single day

Girl was one of seven Shia Hazaras found beheaded this week; 5 injured as protesters fired upon by Afghan police

Relatives say boy's mother rushed into the room in time to save him

Ayed al-Jahdali was convicted of shooting dead a policeman who was trying to arrest him for drug trafficking

The number is up sharply from the 87 Saudis and foreigners executed during the whole of 2014

Al-Shammari was found guilty of killing fellow tribesman in a frenzied attack, interior minister said

It had issued a 48-hour deadline threatening to kill him if Muslim women prisoners were not released from Egyptian jails

The latest beheading in the southwestern Baha region brings to 115 the number of executions this year in the kingdom

The latest execution brings to 110 the number of beheadings this year in the kingdom

Mother of five was seized from home in the northeastern state of Assam after local priests said she was casting spells

People of Islamabad protest against the blasphemy laws and parallel judicial structures in front of the Parliament.