<p>An Indian worker convicted of murdering a Saudi was beheaded by the sword in the Riyadh region today, the interior ministry said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Mohammed Latif was found guilty of having beaten to death his "sponsor," Dhafer bin Mohammed al-Dussari, with a sharp object and then dumping his body in a well, it was quoted by state news agency SPA as saying.<br /><br />A system called "kafala" in Arabic gives local sponsors control over foreign workers in the oil-rich Gulf, often leading to disputes.<br /><br />Latif's execution was the third carried out this year in Saudi Arabia, which beheaded 78 people in 2013, according to an AFP count.<br /><br />Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the conservative kingdom's strict version of Islamic sharia law.</p>
<p>An Indian worker convicted of murdering a Saudi was beheaded by the sword in the Riyadh region today, the interior ministry said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Mohammed Latif was found guilty of having beaten to death his "sponsor," Dhafer bin Mohammed al-Dussari, with a sharp object and then dumping his body in a well, it was quoted by state news agency SPA as saying.<br /><br />A system called "kafala" in Arabic gives local sponsors control over foreign workers in the oil-rich Gulf, often leading to disputes.<br /><br />Latif's execution was the third carried out this year in Saudi Arabia, which beheaded 78 people in 2013, according to an AFP count.<br /><br />Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the conservative kingdom's strict version of Islamic sharia law.</p>