Six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia today, the government said, the highest number of executions in a single day this year.
A Pakistani citizen was executed for drug trafficking and five Saudi nationals for homicide, the interior ministry said.
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Today’s executions bring to 44 the number of convicts put to death this year. Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s highest rates of execution, with suspects convicted of terrorism, homicide, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking facing the death penalty.
