"The number of people executed in Saudi Arabia quadrupled last year, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International. At least 158 people were executed in the kingdom in 2007, compared with 39 in 2006, Amnesty reported. The report also said that about half of the 1,695 people known to have been executed in the kingdom over the past 23 years were citizens of foreign countries, mostly workers from developing countries like Somalia and Sudan. Those workers were far less likely to be pardoned than were those with family support or ties to influential Saudis, the report said, and their governments rarely intervened on their behalf. The report said fewer people had been executed in recent years for murder than for crimes like drug violations, apostasy, adultery and “rebellion and highway robbery,” a term for violent criminal acts against people or property."