Dad "got rid of" his daughter after paternity unclear
Saudi beheads pair who torture 9-yr-old to death

RIYADH (Agencies)
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a couple convicted of torturing to death a nine-year-old girl, including burning her with a red-hot spoon and beating her with a metal pipe, the interior ministry said.
Saudi Nashat Haji, 32, was beheaded by the sword for murdering his daughter, Khosoun, said a ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
He was executed in the western city of Mecca along with his second Saudi wife, Iman Ghazawi, 27, after they both tortured the girl, including driving a car into her in the courtyard of her home.
Haji decided to "get rid of" his daughter after he became doubtful that he was her biological father from a previous marriage, the ministry said.
The Saudi Arabic-language daily Al-Watan later reported that DNA tests showed a 99.9% probability that the child was in fact his.
Another Saudi national, Adel al Huthrumi, was also executed in Mecca on the same day for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a young boy, the ministry announced in a separate statement carried by SPA.
The latest beheadings brought to seven the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year, after a record 153 people were put to death in 2007.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty, if the criminal is proven guilty beyond a doubt.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/01/17/44316.html
Saudi Arabia, has been braking records a couple years now in a row, I'm sure at the end of 2008 they will brake their old record of 153 executions,The latest beheadings brought to seven the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year, after a record 153 people were put to death in 2007.