Authorities in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom were accused of waging a "campaign of death" as the number killed in the first half of this year surpassed that for the whole of 2014.
Beheading is the most popular form of execution amongst Saudi Arabia's rulers, with many carried out in public.
Just over half of those executed this year have been Saudi citizens, with many of the harshest sentences handed down to drug smugglers.
Yet Britain and America have remained largely silent over human rights abuses in the oil-rich Gulf state, which is an increasingly important political and economic ally in the unstable region. » | Nick Gutteridge | Tuesday, June 16, 2015
