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Respectfully, yes and no. The Saudis are particularly bloodthirsty.

Between 2015 and 2022, an average of 129 executions were carried out each year. The figure represents an 82% increase on the period 2010-14. Last year, 147 people were executed – 90 of them for crimes that were considered to be nonviolent.Feb 1, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/01/executions-in-saudi-arabia-almost-double-under-mohammed-bin-salman#:~:text=Between%202015%20and%202022%2C%20an,were%20considered%20to%20be%20nonviolent.

This, with one tenth of the US population.

While it's true that the US is a violent nation, and as far as I can see, approaching the status of "failed state", we do not have a central government executing its own citizens at that rate, or for such trivial infractions, let alone beheading them in public.