The number is up sharply from the 87 Saudis and foreigners executed during the whole of 2014. PHOTO: RT
The number is up sharply from the 87 Saudis and foreigners executed during the whole of 2014.
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In the latest case, authorities carried out the death sentence against Abdullah al-Ahmari in the southwestern region of Asir, the interior ministry said.
He had been found guilty of shooting dead another man in a dispute.
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London-based Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia had the world's third-highest number of executions last year, far behind China and Iran, but ahead of Iraq and the United States.
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Under the kingdom's strict Islamic legal code, murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
Most Saudi executions are carried out by beheading with a sword, punishment which the interior ministry says is a deterrent.
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