Saudi Arabia today beheaded two Pakistani men convicted of smuggling heroin into the kingdom, an interior ministry statement said.
The executions raised to at least 35 the number of people put to death this year in Saudi Arabia, which enforces strict Islamic sharia law.
At least 45 people were put to death last year, 75 in 2001 and 121 in 2000.
The conservative Gulf Arab state executes murderers, rapists and drug smugglers, usually by public beheading.