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Saudi Arabia tops 2014 execution total
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSaudi Arabia carries out its 88th execution so far this year, surpassing the total for all of 2014 despite activists’ concerns that trials are not conducted fairly.
The interior ministry identifies the latest to be put to death as Saudis Awad al-Rowaili and Lafi al-Shammary, who were convicted of smuggling amphetamines.
They were executed in the northern region of Jawf, the ministry says in statements carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
Another Saudi, Mohammed al-Shihri, was separately put to death in the southwestern region of Asir for murder.
The conservative Islamic kingdom executed 87 people in 2014, according to an AFP tally.
— AFP
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