Two more people beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has beheaded two more citizens, bringing to 102 the number of Saudis and foreigners executed in 2015, the Interior Ministry says.
Mohammed al-Otaibi, convicted of shooting dead another Saudi, was beheaded in the Arab kingdom's capital Riyadh on Tuesday.
Turki al-Zahrani was separately put to death on the same day in the holy city of Mecca for stabbing dead a fellow Saudi.
The beheadings by sword in Saudi Arabia since the start of 2015 already outnumber those in 2014 when a total of 87 were executed.
In 1995, Saudi Arabia executed a record 192 people, according to Amnesty International.
Beheadings in Saudi Arabia have drawn criticism from international rights bodies.
"Saudi authorities have been on a campaign of death this year, executing more people in six months than all of the previous year," Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), said in a statement on Tuesday.
The New York-based body said there is evidence of "due process violations" in Saudi Arabia's judiciary system.
In Saudi Arabia, rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punished by death penalty.
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