A final cigarette… then the hangman’s noose: Three men put to death in Kuwaiti car park in country’s first execution in six years
Posted: April 2, 2013 Filed under: News | Tags: Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Capital punishment, Gulf Arab, Hangman's knot, Kuwait, Pakistan, Parking lot, Saudi Arabia Comments Off on A final cigarette… then the hangman’s noose: Three men put to death in Kuwaiti car park in country’s first execution in six years01/Apr/2013
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Three men convicted of murder hanged today in the Gulf Arab state
- One from Saudi Arabia, one from Pakistan and one without a nationality
- Last execution was a drug trafficker in 2007 but 72 have been killed since ’64
Blindfolded, his hands bound, a condemned prisoner puffs desperately on a final cigarette.
Just a few minutes later he and two others are led up a short flight of stairs, nooses are placed around their necks before a trapdoor opens beneath their feet. This is justice Kuwait-style.
The Gulf-Arab state hanged three convicted murderers today, the first executions to take place there since 2007, state news agency KUNA reported.
The three were a Pakistani, a Saudi and a stateless man who were hooded and bound before being hung from gallows outside the Central Prison, official pictures showed.
They had been found guilty in three separate murder cases. Authorities had invited journalists from Kuwaiti publications to witness the executions.The last recorded case of the death penalty being carried out in Kuwait was six years ago when a Pakistani man was executed for drug trafficking, according to Amnesty International.
Kuwait, which has a population of around three and a half million people, operates a judicial system which is a mixture of Islamic Sharia law, English common law, and the Ottoman civil code.
The state carried out 72 executions (69 men and three women) between April 1964 and May 2007.
Crimes that carry the death sentence include drug trafficking, murder and treason. Sentences are not carried out publically however members of the media act as witnesses and pictures are published in the hope it will act as a deterrent KUNA said 48 people remain on death row in Kuwait.
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