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Horror as ‘innocent’ Saudi woman is beheaded for 'killing six-year-old'

Saudi Arabia: A woman screamed her innocence right up until the last seconds before an executioner’s sword fell, beheading her for killing her husband’s six-year-old daughter.

But the sword-wielding executioner had to take two swings to hack-off Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim’s head in graphic footage later uploaded onto the Internet.

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