**A Saudi court has ruled that a man, convicted of raping five children, will be beheaded and crucified, a Saudi newspaper has reported.**The 22-year-old, who has not been named, was caught when he offered a child a lift home from school in his car, the Okaz newspaper said.
One of the victims, aged three, survived after being left for dead in the desert.
The court of appeal in Riyadh approved the death sentence handed down in June.
The man’s victims were aged between three and seven.
Reports suggest he lured them into his car near their school, near the town of Hail, and took them to isolated areas to rape them.
Beheading is permitted for serious offences in the conservative Gulf state and more than 40 people have been executed in such a fashion this year.
International human rights groups have been critical of the practice, but Saudi authorities defend it as a quick and clean form of execution sanctioned by the Islamic faith.
Crucifixion means the body will be attached to wooden beams and displayed in public after the beheading.