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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Executions in Saudi Arabia reach ‘frightening’ rate as 70th prisoner in 2016 is killed

 'Saudi Arabia is making a mockery of justice and dozens of people are paying with their lives'

Ashley Cowburn

Saudi Arabia is executing people at a "frightening" rate, campaigners have warned, after it emerged the kingdom had killed its 70th prisoner of the year bringing the total number to almost half that of 2015.  Alaa al-Zahrani, who was put to death in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, was found guilty of killing fellow Saudi Abdullah al-Sumairi with a rock to the head, the interior ministry revealed in a statement published by the Saudi’s official state news agency SPA.   Several advocacy groups that monitor the death penalty worldwide placed the figure at 157 last year, with beheadings reaching their highest level in two decades.....

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