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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ryan Fahey

Saudi Arabia executes 80 prisoners in mass beheading as 120 inmates killed this year

Saudi Arabia has already slaughtered 120 prisoners in the first six blood-soaked months of 2022.

In the first half of the year, the Gulf country's execution rate spiked - returning the amount of people put to the sword to pre-Covid levels.

Rights groups fear the rapid escalation of death penalties, which have reportedly been carried out by beheading in the past, could see the country break its grim record of 186 killlings throughout the whole of 2019.

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