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Topic: Three men put to death in Kuwaiti car park in country's first execution in six y

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OP - April 02, 2013, 10:37 AM

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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

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.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302330/Kuwait-executions-A-final-cigarette-flight-stairs-justice-done.html
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Reply #1 - April 02, 2013, 11:40 AM

Six years? I'm impressed.
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Reply #2 - April 06, 2013, 07:40 AM

There's not a lot of violent crime in GCC countries as far as I know and violent crime and serious drug offences are the only crimes that are punished by death (except in KSA where 1,000,001 "crimes" carry the death penalty) so it makes sense.
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