Saudi Arabia last week carried out its 800th execution under King Salman bin Abdulaziz, rights groups announced on Tuesday, nearly double the number of executions that took place in the five years prior to the monarch ascending to the throne in 2015. From 2009 to 2014, the five years preceding King Salman's rule, Saudi Arabia carried out a total of 423 executions, according to anti-capital punishment UK organisation Reprieve and ...