Saudi authorities on Monday put to death an Ethiopian housemaid convicted of killing her employer's six-year child in ago, according to the interior ministry.
The execution was carried out after the death sentence was endorsed by the Saudi Arabia's monarch King Salman, the interior ministry said.
The maid had confessed having stabbed her employer's child to death in June 2013, she claimed in retaliation for her family’s ill-treatment.
The conservative kingdom has put 119 people to death this year and is among the world's top executioners, according to international rights groups.
Most executions in Saudi Arabia are carried out by beheading with a sword and some by firing-squad.
Murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death under the kingdom's strict Islamic legal code.
