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Just over two months into 2015, Saudi Arabia has beheaded 37 convicted criminals.聽

The two most recent came on Tuesday when聽 convicted rapist Mohammed bin Ali bin Mohammed al-Bishi, who reportedly assaulted his victim at gunpoint, and in a separate execution, Hamoud bin Salih bin Falih al-Zubi,聽who reportedly shot and killed a fellow citizen following a dispute, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.聽

"[Mohammed al-Bishi]聽also committed a number of armed robberies causing panic amongst the society. He had entered a number of homes by force and tried to kidnap and rape women and children," a government-issued statement read.

If the current trend continues, the Kingdom projects to exceed the 87 beheadings carried out last year, which was up from 78 the year before, by the聽. The so far this year. Saudi Arabia is聽聽of the United Nations Council on Human Rights with its term set to expire in 2016.

Crimes such as murder, armed robbery, and sexual聽assault, among others, are all聽punishable by death in聽Saudi Arabia because the legal system is based on a strict interpretation of sharia or Islamic law. This leads some聽 towards the Kingdom when they carry out similar punishments as the Islamic State performs on innocent hostages, according to Newsweek.

There isn't a morale equivalency but critics question the double standard when it comes to the brutal beheadings.聽

鈥淭here seems to be a disconnect between Saudi Arabia鈥檚 condemnation of the practices of the Islamic State and the kingdom鈥檚 own state-sanctioned practices,鈥� Lina Khatib of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut told Newsweek.

Since the Islamic State group became organized in the midst of the chaos from the Syrian civil war, media and human rights reports have detailed the cruelty and inhumanity ISIS has brought to the embattled region. The latest , cited by Reuters, shed light on the group kidnapping children and selling them as sex slaves, and killing scores of others via crucifixion and being buried alive.

Back in February, ISIS reportedly , according to CNN. In response, the Egyptian targets inside Libya less than a week later, the BBC reported. This followed high-profile beheadings of American journalists and . The 聽captured and聽executed a French mountaineering guide in late September. Also, three foreign aid workers, , , and , were all executed over the course of 2014. were executed early in 2015.

The UN report also indicated that boys under the age of 18 were being forced into becoming suicide bombers and bomb makers. The reach of the group is disturbing because, though many children from Yazidi and 海角大神 minorities' have been taken hostage, children of both Sunnis and Shi'ites have been abducted as well, according to Reuters.

"We are really deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially those belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities," UN committee expert Renate Winter told the gathered media at a press conference. "The scope of the problem is huge."

Monday, an Associated Press (AP) story reported that ISIS has simply chosen varied elements from the entirety of Islamic history to construct an ideology using distorted accounts of this history. Joas Wagemakers, assistant professor of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, told the AP this amounted to an attempt by the IS to make God, "a co-conspirator in a genocidal project."聽

As for Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International reported on the for 2014-2015, and reported that death penalties can also be handed down for offenses such as "sorcery," simple/minor drug possession, apostasy, and adultery.聽

VICE News reported that聽 are also employed by Saudi Arabian authorities in addition to beheadings, which they view as the most human method.聽 in some instances, have been extracted through coerced confessions and torture, according to Amnesty International. Citizens are subject to arbitrary arrests with indefinite detention without access to a lawyer and without being charged for as long as six months, according to the same report.聽