I also lived there and was under the impression that a lot of people slated for execution for crimes against a specific person very often tended to get pardoned / execution stayed by the victim or their surviving family. There was a widespread belief rooted in Islam that pardoning someone sentenced to death was equivalent to saving their life, and this would help assure that the benevolent family members would be accepted into heaven.

I think it's harder to get your execution if your crime is against the state, because there's no one who would benefit in the afterlife from commuting your sentence. (I assume that anyone in power who could has plenty of other subjects to grant leniency to, and don't have any particular religious pressure to take advantage of any individual opportunity to do so.)