Hyderabad, Feb. 3 -- The annual rate of executions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has almost doubled since King Salman and Crown prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, came to power in 2015.

This came in a report, issued on Tuesday by the non-profit European Saudi organization for Human Rights (ESOHR) and the anti-death penalty charity Reprieve.

The report, entitled "Bloodshed and Lies: Mohammed bin Salman's Kingdom of Execution," stated that the average number of executions increased by 82 percent under the rule of Mohammed bin Salman and his father.

The two organizations confirmed that more than 1,000 executions were carried out during the reign of the current leadership of the Kingdom, after matching official data with their own ...