Kuwaiti royal hung along with 6 others
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KUWAIT hanged seven prisoners, including a royal family member and a woman convicted of killing more than 40 people, in a mass execution yesterday, the first death sentences carried out in several years in the oil-rich emirate.
Those executed comprised a Bangladeshi, a Filipina, an Ethiopian, two Kuwaitis and two Egyptians, according to a statement on the state-run KUNA news agency.
The royal was identified as Faisal Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah. The statement said he was convicted of premediated murder and illegal possession of a firearm.
The second Kuwaiti national executed was named as Nasra al-Enezi. She was convicted of charges including premeditated murder and sentenced to death in 2010. She was accused of setting fire to a wedding tent the previous year after her husband took a second wife. The blaze killed more than 40 women and children inside.
In the Philippines, Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose identified the Filipina hanged as Jakatia Pawa, who was convicted of killing her employer’s daughter.
Pawa’s brother, a senior Air Force officer, said his sister had called early on Wednesday, crying as she informed him of her scheduled execution. She asked him to take care of her two children.
Ernesto Abella, a spokesman for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, said that the authorities had used “all efforts to preserve her life, including diplomatic means and appeals for compassion.”
“Execution, however, could no longer be forestalled under Kuwaiti laws,” he said.
The last known executions to be carried out in Kuwait were in 2013 when three people were hung.
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