Saudi Arabia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 9
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 41
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Executions are carried out in public with a sword
- News items in the archive
- 1,841
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Saudi Arabia is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 9 executions in the country, against 41 the year before. The archive holds 1,841 news items on Saudi Arabia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JULY 4, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIAN FREED FROM DEATH PENALTY IN SAUDI RETURNS TO INDONESIA
Nurkoyah Marsan Dasan, an Indonesian female worker from Rengasdengklok, Karawang, West Java Province, awarded death penalty by the Saudi Court for the death of the child of her employer, was released and finally returned to Indonesia.
- JULY 4, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi national beheaded in Medina
4 July 2018: Salman al-Saaedi executed for murder
- JULY 3, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerian citizen beheaded in Medina
3 July 2018: Abo Doromi Aweeda executed for cocaine smuggle
- JULY 3, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Isha
3 July 2018: Ahmad bin Yaakoob executed for murder
- JULY 1, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian citizen beheaded in Mecca
1 July 2018: Askhar Anwar Sek executed for murder
- JUNE 28, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Yemeni citizen beheaded in Rivadeh
28 June 2018: Tarsh Saleh executed for murder
JUNE 26, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR BURNING FATHER WHILE HE WAS SLEEPING
The Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia just issued a press statement, indicating that the man who burned his father alive has been executed.
- JUNE 25, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Asir
25 June 2018: Abed allah al-Beeshe executed for murder
- JUNE 8, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR NURKOYAH
AN INDONESIAN WOMAN
- JUNE 7, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. SLEEPER TERROR CELL BUSTED
LINKED TO IRAN
- MAY 14, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Khamis Msheet
14 May 2018: Hadi bin Hassan al-Msheekhi executed for murder
- MAY 13, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded 16 years after crime
13 May 2018: Jameel Bin Mohammad Al Aseeri executed over armed attacks on banks
- MAY 13, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Geddah
13 May 2018: Gamil Asiri executed for armed robbery
- MAY 13, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR ATTACKS ON BANKS
Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man over armed attacks on banks in the Red Sea city of Jeddah 16 years ago.
- MAY 10, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Medina
10 May 2018: Mazen Haneefa executed for murder
- MAY 9, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian maid pardoned for baby’s murder hosts parents
9 May 2018: Masamah binti Raswa Sanusi receives parents in Indonesia
- MAY 1, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Two Saudi citizens beheaded in Rivadeh
1 May 2018: double execution for murder
- APRIL 18, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Medina
18 April 2018: Mohammad al-Gehni executed for murder
- APRIL 16, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani citizen beheaded in Mecca
16 April 2018: Shamas Rayhan executed for heroin smuggle
- APRIL 10, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerian citizen beheaded in Madina
10 April 2018: Eado Bayo Zakariyah executed for cocaine smuggle
- APRIL 10, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Breeda
10 April 2018: Saeed bin Ahmad executed for rape
- APRIL 8, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Mecca
8 April 2018: Mogren al-Ateebe executed for murder
APRIL 5, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: DEATH SENTENCE TO ISIS MEMBER WHO KILLED HIS COUSIN
Riyadh’s Criminal Court issued a preliminary death sentence against a Saudi citizen after he was convicted of killing a number of civilians and security men, including his own cousin.
- APRIL 4, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sudanese citizen beheaded in Abha
4 April 2018: Mohammad Abed al-Baki executed for murder
- APRIL 3, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Beheading for drugs smuggle
3 April 2018: Abdullah Hawas al-Shelal executed
- APRIL 2, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi citizen beheaded in Breeda
2 April 2018: Fawaz al-Attebe executed for murder
- MARCH 22, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
"Kill them Children"
March 22, 2018: A new dangerous governmental Saudi justification for legalizing children’s Beheading
- MARCH 22, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerian citizen beheaded in Mecca
22 March 2018: Adam Abedllah Mohammad executed for cocaine smuggle
MARCH 21, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM
The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced a man to death for being part of a terrorist cell in the town of Al-Awamiyah in the Eastern Province.
- MARCH 18, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian migrant worker beheaded for murder
March 18, 2018: M. Zaini Misrin executed notwithstanding clemency pleas from President Jokowi