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Kuwait resumes hangings after a six-year pause

Kuwait hanged three men in April 2013 and two more in June, the first executions since 2007. All five were convicted of murder or rape; no drug offender was among them. The hangings ended a de facto moratorium that had lasted since 2007, in a country whose drug law already allowed death for trafficking.

🇰🇼 Kuwait

Kuwait hanged three men in April 2013 and two more in June, the first executions since 2007. All five were convicted of murder or rape; no drug offender was among them. The hangings ended a de facto moratorium that had lasted since 2007, in a country whose drug law already allowed death for trafficking.[1][2][3]

Sources

  1. Kuwait: Immediately halt executions. Human Rights Watch. News release, 17 June 2013, with update on the two men hanged on 18 June; notes the April round ended the de facto moratorium.
  2. Kuwait: First executions in 4 years. Human Rights Watch. News release, 26 January 2017, recalling the five executions in 2013.
  3. Capital punishment in Kuwait 1964 to January 2025. Capital Punishment UK. Execution table: three men on 1 April 2013 and two on 18 June 2013, all for murder or rape.

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Location accuracy: country only. The sources name no closer place; the dot marks the middle of Kuwait.29.33, 47.59

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