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En mand er blevet halshugget i Saudi Arabien, hvilket bringer antallet af henrettelser for kongeriget til 110 indtil videre i år. Dette er allerede en stigning på 26% i forhold til antallet af henrettelser for 2014.

Mugrib al-Thanyan blev henrettet efter at han var fundet skyldig og dømt til døden for at skyde og dræbe en medborger i forbindelse med et argument, forlyder en erklæring fra Indenrigsministeriet.

Manden var dømt til døden ifølge landet strikse Sharia lov, under hvilken kriminnelle handlinger såsom mord, voldtægt, væbnet røveri og handel med stoffer er strafbare med død. Offentlige henrettelser foregår for det meste ved halshugning af den dømte med et sværd.

Han er den 110. person til at blive henrettet i landet i 2015 og Saudi Arabien har allerede set en stigning på 126% i dødsdomme. I 2014 blev 87 mennesker henrettet.


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The number of executions in 2015 is catching up with the Kingdom's all-time annual record of 192, which was documented by Amnesty International in 1995. The watchdog has been scathing of the Kingdom's human rights record, saying they "fall far short" of global norms.

"Almost half of the executions carried out so far this year have been for drug-related offences, which don't fall into a recognized international category of 'most serious crimes,' and the use of the death penalty for such offences violates international law," a statement on Amnesty International's website read in May.

The "fast pace" of executions in Saudi Arabia was deemed "very disturbing" by a UN special rapporteur.

"If it continues at this pace we will have double the number of executions, or more than double the number of executions, that we had last year," Christof Heyns, who submits annual reports to the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly, told AFP on May 27.

Also in May, Saudi Arabia, which executes more criminals than any nation except China and Iran, announced it wanted to hire eight new executioners, following a surge in executions witnessed under new King Salman's rule.

The job description, published online, mentioned that no special training was required. The executioners would be required to behead condemned criminals in public as well as carry out amputations on those convicted of lesser offenses, Reuters reported.

The executioners would be considered as 'religious functionaries', since they would be serving religious courts and be on the lower end of the civil service pay scale, the ad said.