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Saudi Arabia is executing people at a record clip this year. The kingdom has killed 100 people so far and if the current pace continues the nation will surpass its modern-day execution record of 192, set back in 1995.
At least 16 “crimes” can result in a death sentence in Saudi Arabia—and more than a third wouldn’t even get you jail time in the U.S. On that list: sorcery and witchcraft. Of the 100 people executed this year, 47 were convicted of non-violent drug crimes, according to Human Rights Watch. Only 57 were Saudi citizens.
Vocativ analyzed the crimes for which a person can be sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia and compared them to the sentence a person would get for the same crime in the U.S. based on the federal government’s sentencing matrix …. http://www.vocativ.com