Saudi Arabia’s promises of death sentence reform fall short

“They should publish the reform and present that it’s retroactive, and that it applies throughout all classes of offense,” stated Jeed Basyouni, head of Center East demise penalty tasks at Reprieve, a London-based human rights group. “They should present us precisely who’s on demise row, and who’s prone to the demise penalty, as a result of there may be such a scarcity of transparency,” she added in a telephone name.