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Recent harassment of dissidents and record numbers of executions reflect their anger and unease.

Texas finds itself in the limelight with some frequency, since it leads the nation in sheer numbers of executions.

"Really what that represents is that everyone was stuck in the pipeline," Larry Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said of the heavy numbers of executions in recent years.

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve's death penalty team, said the UNODCs' response failed to address many of the concerns raised in the charity's original letter, which said "it appears all too likely… that the UNODC's counter-narcotics support contribute[s] to increased numbers of executions.

Speaking to reporters on Monday before presenting his latest report on the human rights situation in Iran to the UN Human Rights Council, Shaheed pointed to soaring numbers of executions and the jailing of journalists and activists in the Islamic republic.

No one at Saudi Arabia's justice ministry was immediately available to comment on the surge in the numbers of executions but diplomats have speculated it may be because more judges have been appointed, allowing a backlog of appeal cases to be heard.

Since the ban, some states have simply stopped executing people, and by 2013 the number of executions in the US hit its lowest point since 1994.

The inmate, Tony Chambers, 32, became the 37th death row inmate executed in Texas this year, tying the record number of executions carried out by the state in 1997.

He puts the annual number of executions at 4,000.

The number of executions in Iran is up sharply.

"The number of executions is not known," she said.