It later emerged that he had been taken captive by the Japanese, and executed by beheading on 29 March.
She further stated that any "guilty" Wall Street bankers should be forced to give up any income over $100 million, be sent to re-education camps, or be executed by beheading if they resisted.
Thousands of Vietnamese suspected of disloyalty were arrested, tortured, and executed by beheading or disembowelment.
Arrested in October 1942, they were sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court) in January 1943 and executed by beheading.
Over 100 people have been executed by beheading or firing squad for crimes that include apostasy, heresy, and even sorcery.
The judge, Yahya al-Islami, decreed that Mr. Omar be taken to the forecourt of the morgue where, before the faculty and students, he would be tied to a wooden board, lashed 80 times for his admitted use of alcohol, then executed, either by beheading with a sword or by lying face down and being shot three times through the heart.
Abdolmalek Rigi was executed by Iran a little over a week ago.
Saudi Arabia is the only country that still executes criminals by beheading, carried out with a sword and conducted in public.
"They were executed either by beheading or by shooting".
(Four have been executed, some by beheading).
Last year the kingdom executed (usually by beheading) more people than any other country bar China, Iran and Iraq.
