Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens in a mass execution across the country for what it described as terrorism-related crimes, publicly pinning one of the bodies and its severed head to a pole as a warning to others. It marked the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since Jan. 2, 2016, when the kingdom executed 47 individuals in what was the largest mass execution carried out by Saudi Arabia since 1980. King Salman ratified by royal decree Tuesday's mass execution and that of 2016. This latest mass execution comes on the heels of Sri Lanka's Easter Day attacks that killed over 300 people, including two Saudi nationals. The group, like al-Qaeda in the past, is determined to bring down the U.S.-allied royal family of Saudi Arabia.

Source: CBC News April 24, 2019 03:22 UTC