In Saudi Arabia, 81 people were executed in a single day for crimes related to terrorism. Of these seven were Yemenis and one Syrian. The official media report it.
The 81 people reportedly executed were “linked to Isis, al-Qaeda, the pro-Iranian Houthi Shiite Yemeni rebels and other terrorist organizations”, “were planning attacks on key locations and were engaged in trafficking in arms in the country “.
The death penalty in Saudi Arabia, as prescribed by the Sharia (which founds all the laws of the country), is provided for various crimes and is applied in numbers such as to classify the Kingdom as the first executioner country in the world.
From 2015 to 2019, at least 146 deaths were executed in the country per year, with the picoc in 2019 recording 184 cases. In 2020, the number dropped dramatically to 27, all due to a moratorium on drug-related offenses, a major reason for the executions prior to this legislative change. The rise in death sentences in recent decades was precisely the result of a concerted reaction by the government and courts to the rise in violent crime during the 1970s and parallel to similar developments in the United States and mainland China in the late 20th century. century.