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On Saturday 28 September Saudi Arabia<\/a> smashed its own grim record for number of executions in a calendar year after three executions<\/a> that day took the number of people put to death in 2024 to 198.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previous highest number of executions was in 2022, when The Gulf State executed 196 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Saudi Arabia has given up the pretence around reforms on the use of the death penalty,” Jeed Basyouni, Reprieve’s Head of Death Penalty for the MENA region, told AFP.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Promises made in recent years haven’t materialised or have even been reversed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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