Two Arab women were executed Monday for killing their husbands.

From AP

A Yemeni woman has been executed by firing squad for killing her husband, whom she accused of molesting their daughter.

The woman’s lawyer, Abdel-Alim al-Wafi, says she was executed Sunday in a province north of the capital, San’a.

The 40-year-old woman, Aisha al-Hamzi, had seven children. She said she killed her husband in 2002 because he molested their oldest daughter, now 14.

She was sentenced to death in 2003. Under Yemeni law, she could have been pardoned if one of her children had agreed. But the lawyer says none of her children did because of pressure from the father’s family.

Meanwhile authorities have beheaded a Saudi woman convicted of fatally shooting her husband and setting his body on fire.

Laila Bin Hamdan al-Shammari was executed in the northern city of Hayel. The Interior Ministry said the woman killed her husband after a dispute. It did not explain the nature of the argument.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and armed robbery can be executed — usually with a sword.

According to an Associated Press count, Monday’s execution was the 24th beheading this year in Saudi Arabia. In 2008, 102 people were beheaded.