<span style="color: #222222;">Five Saudi officials face the death penalty over the alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom's Istanbul consulate, Riyadh's public prosecutor said on Thursday.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">However, he said Saudi crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman has not been implicated in the murder.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A spokesman for the public prosecutor's office, in the first Saudi acknowledgement of the manner of his killing, said Khashoggi, a vocal dissident, died after being drugged by the five accused and then dismembered. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said the journalist's body parts were then handed over to an agent outside the consulate grounds.</span><br />''