Saudi Arabia says it has executed a prince who fatally shot another man in a melee, a rare death sentence carried out against a member of the kingdom's extensive royal family. The Interior Ministry said late on Tuesday it had executed Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir in Riyadh, after a court found him guilty of killing a fellow Saudi. The ministry did not describe how the sentence was carried out, though the condemned are often beheaded with a sword, in public, in the Sunni-ruled kingdom. A ministry statement carried on the state-run Saudi Press Agency warned "whoever dares to commit such a crime that the Shariah penalty is awaiting." In 1975, the kingdom beheaded Faisal bin Musaid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for assassinating King Faisal.

Source: CBC News October 19, 2016 10:30 UTC