Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed an Egyptian convicted of murder.
Mahmud Jumaa Morsi was found guilty of fatally strangling and robbing a Saudi, the interior ministry said, adding that he was executed in Riyadh.
Most executions in Saudi Arabia are done by beheading with a sword.
Fifty-four people have been put to death already this year by the kingdom, including 47 in a single day on January 2 for terror charges.
Human Rights Watch’s Sarah Leah Whitson said, “Saudi Arabia should reform its justice system and halt these ghastly punishments”.
Last year the kingdom executed 153 people, mostly for drug trafficking or murder, according to an AFP tally.
The kingdom practises a strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
