AFP reports that Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi citizen for murder on Thursday, bringing the total executions for 2015 to 141.
Abdulrahman al-Asmari was executed following his conviction for killing another Saudi man after a dispute, the interior ministry said.
Al-Asmari was the fourth execution in three days. On Wednesday, a Yemeni and Pakistani were put to death for commiting murders. On Tuesday, a convicted Pakistani drug trafficker was also executed.
According to AFP tallies, this brings the total death sentences carried out in 2015 to 141. There were 87 executions in Saudi Arabia in 2014.
The most common form of execution in Saudi Arabia is beheading with a sword.
Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia had the world's third-highest number of executions last year behind China and Iran. Under the kingdom's strict Islamic legal code, murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
