Authorities in Madinah on Thursday executed a citizen convicted of torturing his wife to death, the Saudi Press Agency said.

Fawzi Al-Khaibari was found guilty of beating and burning his wife with an iron before “crushing her skull” and leaving her to die, said the report, quoting an Interior Ministry statement.

It was the first execution in the Kingdom since July 8, two days before the start of Ramadan, which ended last week.

A total of 58 people have now been executed in Saudi Arabia since the start of the year, according to an official count. In 2012, the Kingdom executed 76 people.

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are punishable by death under the Kingdom's laws.