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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
on Sunday put to death three of its citizens convicted of having killed a security officer and creating a "terrorist cell," Riyadh’s Interior Ministry said.
Since the start of the year, Saudi authorities have executed 52 people, including 20 for terrorism-related offenses, according to an AFP tally.
In a statement on Sunday, the Saudi Interior Ministry said the three men had killed an officer in the capital Riyadh and burned his body by setting fire to his vehicle.
They were also convicted of financing terrorism and possessing weapons, ammunition, and "material used in the manufacture of explosives," the ministry said.
Authorities carried out the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...s on Sunday in Riyadh, the ministry added.
The statement did not specify the method used, but the kingdom has often carried out executions by beheading.
Most executions for "terrorism" this year have taken place in the Sunni Moslem kingdom’s eastern region where the Shiite minority is concentrated.
Last month, Saudi Arabia executed two Bahrainis, also for terrorist-related offenses.
Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most prolific executioners.
Last year, it put to death 147 people, 81 of them on a single day for terrorism-linked crimes. The mass execution sparked an international outcry.
More than 1,000 death sentences have been carried out since King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians...
assumed power in 2015, according to a report published earlier this year by British-based Reprieve and the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights.