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    'Hanging a lesson'

    Legal experts and psychologists believe the execution of the socalled Hawally monster on Tuesday will greatly contribute to efforts to limit, if not eliminate, rape cases; especially the children, but some are not in favor of death penalty.

    Attorney Mihanna Al- Otaibi pointed out the death penalty is the best way to deter anyone who might be toying with the idea of committing crimes, particularly those who target children.

    He said this is a good national security measure since it indicates that Kuwait is strict in the application of laws and it does not tolerate criminal acts.

    On the other hand, Psychology Professor Kuwait University Dr Khoudar Al-Baroon explained the situation is very difficult for a person on the verge of execution, because it may take some time before he dies.

    (Source: The Arab Times)
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    !!! Warning very graphic video !!!

    This is a Kuwaiti Government video of two condemned men hanged on June 18, 2013.


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    Kuwaiti woman gets death sentence for murdering Filipina maid

    Kuwait's supreme court upheld Monday a death sentence against a woman for murdering her Filipina maid after torturing her, and confirmed a 10-year sentence on her disabled husband.

    The ruling is final and cannot be challenged but could be commuted to a life term by the ruler of the Gulf emirate. Executions in Kuwait are carried out by hanging.

    The Kuwaiti woman was convicted of premeditated murder based on evidence that she had regularly tortured her maid before driving over her in a remote desert area.

    The husband was handed the jail term for "assisting her," according to a copy of the ruling.

    The couple were both sentenced to death by the lower court in February last year. Three months later, the appeals court upheld the death penalty against the woman but commuted the sentence against her husband to 10 years in jail.

    According to the ruling, the woman beat her maid for several days until her health deteriorated.

    The couple then took the maid "unconscious" to a remote area in the desert where they threw her from the back seat of the car and then drove over her until she died.

    More than 100,000 Filipinos, many of them women working as maids, live in Kuwait, where some 600,000 domestic helpers, mostly Asians, are employed.

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...-filipina-maid
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    Death penalty upheld for Kuwaiti royal

    Kuwait's supreme court has upheld a death sentence for a member of the Gulf state's ruling family convicted of killing his nephew, also a royal.

    Sheikh Faisal Abdullah Al-Sabah was convicted of shooting Sheikh Basel Salem Al-Sabah to death at the latter's palace in June 2010, apparently over a dispute on board membership at a sports club.

    The sentence is final but can be commuted to life in jail by the emir of the Gulf state where executions are carried out by hanging.

    Sheikh Basel was the grandson of the late former emir Sheikh Sabah Salem Al-Sabah and the son of late minister of defence and interior Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah.

    Courts in Kuwait, which has an elected parliament and a vibrant political life, have in the past handed down death sentences to members of the Al-Sabah ruling family.

    Kuwait resumed executions earlier this year after a moratorium since 2007. Around 50 prisoners are currently on death row.

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    Kuwait: Police officer sentenced to death for raping Filipina

    The Criminal Court has sentenced a lance corporal in the General Traffic Department to death by hanging for kidnapping a Filipino woman, raping her and attempting to murder her, reports Al-Rai daily.

    The case papers show the accused stopped a taxi in which there were two female passengers. He then asked them for their IDs and since one of them did not hold a valid residence permit, he told her to get into the police car.

    He then took her to an open ground and raped her although she pleaded with the man not to and just because she resisted his attempts, he stabbed her.

    To hide his crime, the accused then decided to kill her and stabbed her several times and dragged her to a faraway place making her easy meat for stray dogs. Luckily the victim survived, walked to a main road and waved to a passerby who took her to a hospital.

    The victim, her compatriot friend and the taxi driver managed to pick the suspect from a legal lineup. The accused pretended to be suffering from mental problems but the Psychology Medicine Hospital proved otherwise.

    http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/#ixzz33u6TSWUQ
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    Maid to be executed for killing Kuwaiti bride

    Kuwait’s top court upheld a court sentence to execute an Ethiopian housemaid after she was convicted of murdering her female employer just a day before her wedding.

    The murder took place in 2011, when the maid used a kitchen knife to stab her employer to death before severing the head off her body.

    The maid committed the murder just a day before the Kuwaiti girl was to marry, packed and headed straight to the airport.

    Just minutes before she was to board a flight to her home country, the maid was arrested by the airport police who were alerted to the crime.

    http://www.emirates247.com/crime/reg...06-09-1.552099

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    Kuwait's public prosecution demands death sentence for 11 mosque bombers

    Kuwait's public prosecution has demanded the death penalty for 11 of 29 suspects charged over the suicide bombing of a Shia mosque last month, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Wednesday.

    Al-Qabas, citing informed sources, said two of the suspects are currently fighting with the Islamic State (IS), which claimed the attack.

    The 26 June bombing, carried out by a Saudi, was the bloodiest in Kuwait's history and left 26 people dead and more than 200 wounded.

    Those charged are seven Kuwaitis, five Saudis, three Pakistanis, 13 stateless people known as bidoons, and another person whose identity is unknown and is said to be at large.

    Twenty-four suspects are detained in Kuwait and the another five are to be tried in absentia, including two Saudi brothers who allegedly transported the explosives and are being held in Saudi Arabia.

    Al-Qabas said some of the suspects were also charged with joining a "terrorist" organisation fighting against the state.

    Two of the suspects have been charged with premeditated murder and attempted murder.

    Two others were charged with training in the use of explosives, nine with assisting in the crime and the rest with knowing of the attack without informing the authorities.

    An IS-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province claimed the bombing and also said it carried out suicide attacks on two Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in May.

    IS considers Shia Muslims to be heretics and has targeted them across the region.

    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/de....eob0Od9c.dpuf

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    Kuwait court sentences four Egyptians to death

    Baku-APA. A court in Kuwait has sentenced four Egyptians to death over the killing of a Pakistani guard at a construction site, APA reports quoting Press TV.

    The Egyptian nationals were sentenced on Tuesday. They were charged with murder using a hammer.

    The four men confessed to killing the Pakistani national at the construction site where they stole 36 tons of steel, before selling it all for USD 18,000.

    The verdict can be appealed.

    Three other Egyptians were also sentenced to seven years in prison for helping the four commit the crime.

    In Kuwait, dozens of people are thought to be on death row over, mostly, murder and drug crimes, where execution is carried out by hanging.

    Except for a return of the death penalty in 2013, execution has generally not been used in Kuwait since 2007.

    Since the death penalty was introduced in Kuwait in the mid 1960s, some 71 people have been executed.

    http://en.apa.az/news/230224
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    Kuwait court upholds death sentence in mosque bombing

    Kuwait City (AFP) - Kuwait's appeals court Sunday upheld the death penalty for the main organiser of the bombing of a Shiite mosque claimed by the Islamic State group that killed 26 people.

    The court however reduced the death sentence handed out to the alleged leader of IS in Kuwait, Fahad Farraj Muhareb, to 15 years in prison.

    A lower court in September issued the death penalty to Muhareb and Abdulrahman Sabah Saud, who drove the suicide bomber to the mosque site on June 26.

    It also handed out jail terms of between two and 15 years to eight others, including five women, and acquitted 14 others.

    In Sunday's ruling, the appeals court acquitted one of the five women.

    There was tight security for the hearing, with armoured vehicles outside the Kuwait City court complex and helicopters patrolling overhead.

    Judge Hani al-Hamdan said that the cases of five men sentenced to death in absentia for their role in the bombing were not reviewed because they remained at large.

    Under Kuwaiti law, sentences issued in absentia are not reviewed by higher courts until convicts appear.

    Four of the men at large are Saudis, including two brothers who smuggled the explosives belt used in the attack into Kuwait from neighbouring Saudi Arabia. The fifth is a stateless Arab.

    A total of 29 defendants, seven of them women, had been on trial on charges of helping the Saudi suicide bomber carry out the attack on a Shiite mosque in the capital, which was the bloodiest in Kuwait's history.

    During the initial trial, Saud confessed to most charges but he denied all of them in the appeals court.

    Among those acquitted Sunday was Jarrah Nimer, owner of the car used to drop off the bomber.

    An IS-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province claimed the Kuwait City bombing as well as suicide attacks at two Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in May.

    Najd is the central region of Saudi Arabia.

    The Sunni extremists of IS consider Shiites to be heretics and have repeatedly attacked Shiite targets in the region.

    Kuwaiti courts have already issued several verdicts on IS supporters and financiers.

    http://news.yahoo.com/kuwait-court-u...094631513.html

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    Kuwait Sentences 2 People To Death Over Spying For Iran, Hezbollah

    A court in Kuwait handed down death sentence Tuesday to two men accused of spying for Iran and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. The ruling, which comes just days after Kuwait withdrew its ambassador from Iran over the latter’s diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia, risks further escalating tensions between the two nations.

    According to reports, one of the men given the death penalty was an Iranian convicted in absentia, while the other was a Kuwaiti national, who was present in court. Nineteen others were given sentences ranging from five to 15 years.

    The sentences were announced just over four months after authorities in Kuwait — a predominantly Sunni nation — said that they dismantled an Iran- and Hezbollah- linked “terror” cell and seized large quantities of arms, ammunition and explosives. At the time, Kuwaiti officials said that the arms cache found was “the largest in the country's history.”

    However, it is not yet clear whether the people sentenced Tuesday had connections with the cell uncovered in August.

    Relations between Kuwait and the Shiite-led Iran soured earlier this month, after Saudi Arabia broke off diplomatic ties with Iran in response to attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in the country. The attacks were triggered by the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, by the Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia on Jan. 2.

    Nimr had long been a vocal supporter of the mass anti-government protests that erupted in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province in 2011, where a Shiite majority has accused the government of ignoring their needs and marginalizing their concerns.

    Since his execution, and the ensuing protests in Iran, most Arab countries, including Kuwait, have sided with their Sunni ally and have either cut or reduced diplomatic ties with Iran.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/kuwait-senten...bollah-2260954
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