Court Ignored Allegation He Confessed to Drug Charge Under Tortureconvicted Abu al-Khair of attempting to smuggle amphetamine pills into Saudi Arabia and later sentenced him to death. told Middle East Eye that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, Lord Ahmad, raised Abu al-Khair’s case with Saudi authorities at a ministerial level “as recently as 11 March,” the day before al-Khair's execution. Capital punishment is unique in its cruelty and finality, and it is inevitably and universally plagued with arbitrariness, prejudice, and error