According to Husain Abdulla, the executive director of Americans for Human Rights & Democracy in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 people in 2015 alone, despite international criticism.
The wave of executions has raised the specter of 1988, when the government executed more than 3,000 political prisoners.
Counting the 252 executions in the country since the beginning of this year, Iran has executed more than 1,000 people since January 2014, he said.
The last time Saudi Arabia executed more than 150 people in a single year was when 192 executions were recorded in 1995, an Amnesty statement said.
The last time Saudi Arabia executed more than 150 people in a single year was when 192 executions were recorded in 1995.
In the last three months, according to Amnesty's estimates, China has executed more than 1,700 alleged criminals, more than three times the number of executions in the rest of the world in the last three years.
No other state executed more than three.
The US has executed more than 1,000 people in the last 30 years.
Saudi Arabia has executed more than 150 people this year – its highest figure since 1995.
Texas, for example, has executed more than three dozen people this year.
Beijing executed more than 3,000 people last year, many without due process.
