Mohammed al-Khaweir al-Qahtani was found guilty of shooting dead Hussein al-Shayeb al-Qahtani following a dispute, the interior ministry said.
The British government has been urged by human rights group to put pressure on Saudi Arabia to halt their brutal use of capital punishment.
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He was executed in the southwestern city of Abha, a ministry statement published by the official SPA news agency said.
Most people put to death in Saudi Arabia are beheaded with a sword and the grisly event can often draw a small crowd.
Human rights group Amnesty International says the number of executions in Saudi Arabia last year was the highest for two decades.
Saudi Arabia has a strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
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