Number of Executions rising in Iran, Saudi ArabiaARIEL DAVID
There has been a rise inexecutionssince 2015, when the charity began keeping records of the executions, which are officially announced by the Saudi government. By comparison, 88 people were executed in 2014, with that number nearly doubling to 157 executions a year ...
Because Saudi Arabia carries out most executions through beheading and sometimes in public, it has been compared to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, which also carries out public beheadings and claims to be implementing shariah. Saudi Arabia strongly rejects this. In December, Forei...
These countries recorded the greatest number of executions in 2018, according to Amnesty International.
Saudi Arabia executed record number of prisoners in 2019, a year which saw the kingdom come under scrutiny for its human rights record.
These countries recorded the greatest number of executions in 2018, according to Amnesty International.