New Delhi: Saudi Arabian government executed death penalty to 81 people on Saturday and created a sensation in Arab countries. The Saudi Arabian government executed the sentence to the accused that were found to have links to Al Qaeda, ISIS and the Yemeni Houthi terrorist organization.

The Saudi government hanged 73 Saudi nationals, seven Yemen citizens and one was a Syrian citizen. This is the first time in the last three-and-a-half decades that 81 persons have been executed on the same day. In 1980, 63 people were beheaded and executed in a single day in Saudi Arabia.