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California is transferring everyone on death row at San Quentin prison to other places, as it tries to reinvent the state's most notorious facility as a rehabilitation centre. Many in this group will now have new freedoms. But they are also asking why they've been excluded from the reform - and whether they'll be safe in new prisons. Keith Doolin still remembers the day in 2019 when workers came to dismantle one of the United States' most infamous death chambers.

Saudi Arabia: two men beheaded

January 15, 2008: Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a foreign resident convicted of killing his mother, the Interior Ministry announced.

The ministry said Misahri al-Enizi killed his mother by stabbing her with a knife in the northern town of Arara, according to a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

The agency did not disclose al-Enizi's nationality or that of his mother.

Al-Enizi is the third person to be executed this year in the desert kingdom, according to an Associated Press count.

January 14, 2008: a Saudi man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword in the northern city of Hail. Abdullah bin Mashari was executed for shooting dead Mansour al Kharir following an argument caused by "family differences", the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Sources: Agence France Presse, 14/01/2008 and Ap, 15/01/2008.

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