DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed an American citizen who had been convicted of killing his father.
The Interior Ministry identified the executed man as Bishoy Sharif Naji Naseef and said he beat and then strangled his Egyptian father to death. It also said Mr. Naseef used narcotics, mutilated his father’s body after his slaying and attempted to kill another person before his arrest.
The statement did not identify how Mr. Naseef was executed. However, Saudi Arabia typically beheads those sentenced to death.
A lawyer for Mr. Naseef could not be immediately identified. It wasn’t known if Mr. Naseef had a home address in the United States.
Vedant Patel, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, said that American diplomats visited Mr. Naseef in July and that he hadn’t been identified as being wrongfully detained prior to his execution.
