When police came to arrest Al-Anzi, Al-Anzi resisted arrest by threatening them with a knife.

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The ministry said Al-Anzi kidnapped the boy and held him for a "malicious purpose" at a grocery store where he worked.

CNN: Convicted killer beheaded, put on display in Saudi Arabia

Al-Anzi was a Saudi national, said Chirouf -- who added "nobody knows how many people are on death row" in Saudi Arabia.

CNN: Convicted killer beheaded, put on display in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Interior Ministry asserted that Al-Anzi's body was displayed as a warning that those involved in similar crimes would suffer the same fate, the press agency reported.

CNN: Convicted killer beheaded, put on display in Saudi Arabia

Indeed, Saudi Ministry of Labor spokesman Hattab Bin Salah Al-Anzi said Wednesday that the kingdom will focus instead on recruiting workers from "other sources, " according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.

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The Saudi Interior Ministry said Ahmed Al-Shamlani Al-Anzi was sentenced to death and then "crucifixion" -- having his body displayed in public -- for the kidnapping and killing of an 11-year-old boy and for the killing of the boy's father, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.

CNN: Convicted killer beheaded, put on display in Saudi Arabia