Trio of murderers hanged in Kuwaiti car park are country’s first executions in 6 years
The three men — a Pakistani, a Saudi and a stateless man — were found guilty in separate crimes. The Gulf-Arab state does not typically carry out executions publicly, but publishes images afterward to use as a deterrent.
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One of three men convicted of murder and awaiting execution is seen before being hanged outside of the Central Prison of Kuwait on Monday.
A trio of convicted killers were put to death on Monday in a Kuwaiti car park as the country carried out its first official executions in more than six years.
A Pakistani, a Saudi and a stateless man were hanged in front of a small group of local journalists and photographers on gallows outside the Central Prison.
State news agency KUNA released the harrowing images and reported that the three men had been found guilty in separate murder cases.
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A Saudi man smokes his last cigarette before being hanged for the murder of a compatriot just west of Kuwait City, Kuwait, on Monday.
The last person to be executed by the Kuwaiti state was a drug trafficker in 2007, according to Amnesty International.
Authorities in the Gulf-Arab state — who rule through a unique mixture of Islamic Sharia law, English common law and the Ottoman civil code — have executed 72 people between April 1964 and May 2007.
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A total of 48 people in the country of 3.5 million are currently on death row, KUNA reported.
But, unlike in other nations, the executions are not carried out in public. Instead, media members act as witnesses and later publish images that are used as a deterrent.
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A Saudi man was one of three convicted murderers hanged Monday in the first executions in Kuwait since May 2007, the ministry of justice said.
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Two of three men are walked up on to the gallows before being executed by hanging just west of Kuwait on Monday.
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Three men hang from the gallows after being executed by hanging just west of Kuwait’s capital city on Monday. The last execution there was in 2007.
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Masked executioners look on as a man is executed by hanging just west of Kuwait’s capital Monday.
