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currenteye:

Human rights group describes execution as “truly appalling” and notes steep rise in country’s use of capital punishment.

Al Jazeera English and agencies:

A Saudi woman has been beheaded after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is banned in the conservative Gulf kingdom, the country’s interior ministry said.

The ministry gave no further details of the charges for which the woman was convicted.

London-based newspaper al-Hayat quoted a member of the Saudi religious police as saying Nasser was in her 60s. The official claimed she had tricked people into giving her money, claiming that she could cure their illnesses.

According to the report, she apparently charged up to $800 a session.

Amnesty International said the beheading brought the number of executions in the kingdom to 73 this year. Another woman was beheaded in October for killing her husband by setting his house on fire. 

There are no available statistics on how many women have been executed in Saudi Arabia.

Oh my god. That last sentence.