Rising Saudi death penalty targets most vulnerable

Medieval and barbaric: a Burmese woman, Laila Bint Muttalib Basim,
was beheaded in the holy city of Mecca in January 2015. More here.

Migrants and impoverished Saudis are overwhelmingly the victims of executions, which have risen dramatically since 2013

Saudi Arabia is on course to execute record numbers of people in 2015, as