61.   Convicted drug traffickers are given a mandatory death sentence under Iranian law.

62.   Convicted drug traffickers are publicly beheaded.

63.   Convicted drug traffickers have in recent years also been beheaded in a bid by Saudi authorities to deal with a growing drug menace.

64.   Defending the shooting, authorities noted Ferguson was a convicted drug dealer with at least nine prior arrests on his record.

65.   Eight convicted drug smugglers, all foreigners, were beheaded Monday, the highest number of narcotics traffickers executed in a single day in the kingdom.

66.   Dutch television, citing unnamed justice department officials, reported that the injured prisoner is a convicted Colombian drug dealer.

67.   Eugenio Galea, a convicted drug trafficker, had been wanted for two years.

68.   Eugenio Gallia, a convicted drug trafficker, had been wanted for two years.

69.   Five of the other eight were convicted of conspiracy to murder and three were convicted drug smugglers.

70.   Five of the others were convicted of conspiracy to murder and three were convicted drug smugglers.