compatriot was beheaded on Sunday , bringing to 35 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year .
Mahdi Khalaf al-Shamrani was found guilty of killing Saeed Msaed al- Aklabi following a dispute over land , the interior ministry said .
He was executed in the southwestern
mountainous city of Abha , the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency .
Drug trafficking, rape , murder , apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death under the Gulf kingdom ’ s strict version of Islamic sharia law.
Amnesty International said in its annual report released on Wednesday that death sentences are often imposed “ after unfair trials ”.
The London -based watchdog said some
defendants claimed to have been tortured or “otherwise coerced or misled into making false confessions ” before trial.
According to an AFP count , the kingdom executed 87 people last year , up from 78 in 2013.
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