Thursday 4 April 2013

Kuwait to hang five more inmates at Central Prison
~~By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
49 inmates on death row, 44 still awaiting Court of Cassation decision
Manama: Kuwait’s Central Prison is getting ready to execute five more people within days, a report in Kuwait City said.

“Instructions have been given to the Central Prison to prepare for the hanging of five inmates sentenced to death,” sources told local Arabic daily Al Jareeda.

The sources that the newspaper did not specify the nationalities of the detainees to be executed.

Kuwait on Monday carried out three executions following a hiatus since May 2007.

Courtesy: Gulf News