State executions in Saudi Arabia declined by 85% in 2020: Report

The number of people executed by Saudi Arabia declined by around 85% in 2020, after 27 people were executed as compared to 184 in 2019, a report said. A moratorium on death penalties for drug-related offences was partly responsible for the decline, the Saudi rights commission said. Reportedly, Saudi Arabia had carried out the third-highest number of executions in 2019.