15 September 2020 :

A Filipino who was sentenced to death in Kuwait for the murder of his Filipina partner in October 2007 has been pardoned by the nation's Amir, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed on 12 September 2020. 
After receiving clemency from Kuwait's Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Bienvenido Espino was repatriated to Manila on 30 August.
“The Philippine government, through the Embassy, had been asking the Kuwaiti government to pardon OFW Espino. No less than then-presidents Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Benigno Aquino III personally appealed to His Highness The Amir to grant clemency to OFW Espino," Chargé d’Affaires Mohammed Noordin Pendosina Lomondot said in a statement.
He said that even after his death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment in 2013, “the Philippine government remained persistent in appealing for the Amir’s pardon, through our letters to the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
On behalf of the government and President Rodrigo Duterte, Lomondot extended his gratitude to the Kuwaiti Amir for granting pardon to Espino. 
The Kuwaiti Court of First Instance in May 2008 found Espino guilty of the murder of his Filipina partner in October 2007 and sentenced him to death by hanging.
The decision was upheld by the Kuwaiti Court of Appeals in January 2009 and by the Kuwait Court of Cassation in November 2009.
Espino received a "tanazul" or letter of forgiveness from the family of his late Filipina partner after settling the blood money for the crime, leading to the commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment in 2013.
He received the Amiri pardon during the recently-concluded Eid season, along with other Filipino detainees at the Sulaibiya Central Jail.“I hope that OFW Espino will carry with him the experiences and lessons of the past as he starts a new life in the Philippines. I wish him well in his future endeavors,” Lomondot said in his message to Espino. 

24 February 2020 :

The Court of Cassation presided over by Judge Ahmad Al-Ajeel has commuted death sentence by hanging to life imprisonment for two security operatives affiliated to Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense respectively who were accused of kidnapping and raping a Kuwaiti woman in a desert area, Arab Times reported on 23 February 2020.
According to the case file, the victim reported the incident at a police station, explaining that she was driving when a traffic patrol ordered her to pull over and demanded for identification. After claiming she was wanted at the Civil Execution Department over a financial crime, she was handed over to a policeman and another person.
They later approached her for an agreement to let her off the hook if she agreed to follow them to an apartment. She pretended to agree to the proposal and the policeman returned her civil ID card to her and said, “You are now free, so let us go to the apartment”.
She requested to use the toilet and he allowed her to go but she escaped and started running on the main road, where she boarded a taxi. When the partner of the policeman realized she had escaped, he chased her on his 4WD vehicle and forced the taxi driver to pull over and pull her into the jeep. He and the policeman then took her to a desert area in Firdous area where they raped her and then abandoned her in front of Firdous Cooperative Society.

31 December 2020 :

A Kuwaiti citizen has been sentenced to death a year after killing her Filipina domestic worker.
In a series of tweets, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on 30 December 2020 confirmed the Kuwaiti Criminal Court handed down the death sentence to the Kuwaiti woman who killed 26-year-old Jeanelyn Villavende in December last year.
Quoting Philippine Embassy lawyer Fawziya Al Sabah, Locsin said the court's decision was "fair and in accordance with law and Sharia as the accused assaulted her Filipino employee for days and imprisoned her in a room until her death."
Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti woman's husband was sentenced to four years imprisonment for not reporting the crime. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration chief Hans Cacdac told CNN Philippines that this relatively light punishment "should be looked into, perhaps the subject of an appeal."
Based on the autopsy conducted in Kuwait following her death, Villavende died of acute failure of heart and respiration as a result of shock and multiple injuries in the vascular nervous system.
However, the National Bureau of Investigation's findings also showed the Filipina worker was "sexually abused and brutally murdered."
"To my brother, the Kuwait Ambassador to the PH, I owe you a debt of blood gratitude. My thanks and that of my nation and people is eternal," Locsin wrote.
"They took my vow seriously: blood for blood, life for life. Thank you Kuwait," he added, referring to his earlier reassurance that "there will be blood" for what happened to Villavende.

28 December 2020 :

Abd Al Tawab Sayed Youssef, the Egyptian man who was found guilty in Kuwait of murdering a Kuwaiti woman and her Saudi mother in October 2015, has been sentenced to death by hanging, Al Anba daily reported on 27 December 2020.
The court has also sentenced his two brother-in-laws to life in prison and released his wife after being proved to be innocent as the main accused admitted to planning and premeditatedly murdering the victim with the help of his two brother-in-laws to rob their money.
The prime accused had claimed the elder woman slipped and fell in the well while inspecting to buy it and that when the daughter learned of her mother’s death she tried to kill him with a knife, which prompted him to hit her with a spanner.
However, investigations uncovered that he was lying and that he deliberately killed and threw her body also in the well.

23 November 2020 :

The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal submitted by the Kuwaiti citizen “Abdulaziz U.” who was accused of killing the policeman Turki Al-Anzi by running into him at the Dasman roundabout during the National Day celebrations in 2016, Al-Anba daily reported on 21 November 2020.
The court upheld the verdicts issued by the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeals which had sentenced him to death by hanging.
The Criminal Court had attributed its conviction of the accused with the death penalty because he had embraced unorthodox extremist ideas, and deliberately killed the victim with premeditation.
The court explained that the perpetrator wanted to kill the largest possible number of security personnel without discrimination or knowledge of them. He had prepared the kit for that purpose one month before the day he executed the crime, and had planned to run over them with a car in one place.
The perpetrator was oblivious to the securitymen and drove his vehicle towards them impatiently and with composure, intending to kill the largest number of them and run them over more than once.
He caused injuries to the victim that led to his death, and also caused injuries to six other securitymen after running over them with the intent to kill them. His crime was frustrated not because of his will but rather due to resistance of security operatives who overpowered him.
The perpetrator took out a knife and went towards two policemen with the intent to kill them, but he was unable to carry out his crime. He then went to another place and a security patrol team followed him. Securitymen tried to control him but he resisted them and tried to kill them with a knife, causing injuries.

21 July 2020 :

Kuwait’s top court on 20 July 2020 upheld a lower court’s ruling condemning a Kuwaiti man to death for killing his pregnant Saudi wife by strangulating her three years ago, Saudi Arabia’s Okaz newspaper reported.
The man, 31, murdered his wife, 25, due to personal disputes after a quarrel, in Al Jahra province, northwest of Kuwait, Okaz said quoting Kuwait’s Security and Courts website. He later surrendered to the authorities.
A security source said after police arrived at the crime scene, the victim was taken to hospital, but succumbed to her injuries. Police investigations revealed that the man was under the influence of drugs at the time of the crime.

22 January 2020 :

The Court of Cassation chaired by Judge Ahmad Al-Ajeel ruled in favor of the Court of Appeals to execute a Kuwaiti man accused of beating and torturing a child to death in a vehicle, and to imprison the mother of the child for 10 years with hard labor, the Arab Times reported on 20 January 2020.
The case file indicates the crime dates back to early August 2018 when the Operations Room received a communication from the mother claiming that her child was motionless after having a fall, and when security and medical emergency men examined the child, they discovered traits of beating and torture.
The mother during investigation revealed that she was accompanied by a male friend who had beaten the daughter until she succumbed to her injuries. The Public Prosecutor confirmed before court that the Kuwaiti man proposed to the child's mother that her daughter should be killed because of the circumstances of her disability, indicating the child was preventing them from enjoying their life.