Saudi Arabia breaks 20-year execution record: Amnesty International

‘At least 151 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia so far this year, the highest figure in the last 20 years, Amnesty International says.

In a Monday statement, the rights group said Saudi authorities, on average, have put to death one person every other day in 2015.

The number shows a dramatic 68-percent rise in comparison with 90 executions carried out over the whole of the last year.

The last time Riyadh executed over 150 people in a single year was in 1995, when 192 executions were recorded, according to the statement.’