Saudi Arabia has reportedly taken its number of executions for the year to 100, far exceeding last year’s tally and putting it on course for a new record.
According to a statement from the Saudi Press Agency, two more convicted criminals were killed by the government on Monday – including a foreign national guilty only of a non-violent drug smuggling offence.

The tally of 100 for this year, reported by AFP, exceeds both its own tally for Saudi executions last year of 87 and rights group Amnesty International’s, of “90+”.
The surge in numbers sees the country on the brink of setting a new record for beheadings – other nations like Iran, China and Pakistan have killed more people, but by different methods.

It also puts Saudi Arabia on course to beat its own record of total executions which, according to Amnesty, was set at 192 in 1995.
Earlier this year, the charity’s Saudi Arabia researcher Sevag Kechichian observed that the kingdom had reached what an “unprecedented” rate of executions, and called on Salman to “put an end to this shameful record”.

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