11 June 2024 :

In a recent ruling, the Kuwait Court of Cassation, led by Counselor Sultan Bouresli, has upheld the death penalty by hanging for two Iranian nationals convicted of attempting to smuggle 189 kilograms of hashish and psychotropic substances by sea from Kubbar Island, Arab Times reported on June 10, 2024.
The verdict came after an interception by the Coast Guard and the Drug Control Department.
The defendants admitted to the charges and disclosed to the court that they were heroin users. They confessed to departing from the Abadan area on a cruiser with a different quantity of drugs before setting a course towards Kuwait from the agreed-upon location.

15 September 2024 :

The Criminal Court in Kuwait has sentenced an expatriate, formerly a security guard at a school, to death for sexually assaulting a teacher from the same school, Al-Seyassah daily reported on August 25, 2024. According to the case file, the guard had sexually assaulted the teacher, after touching her inappropriately on some sensitive parts of her body and attempting to kiss her. The court’s decision was based on evidence presented by the Public Prosecution, including surveillance camera footage that corroborated the accusations against the defendant.

10 September 2024 :

Kuwait on September 5, 2024 carried out the death sentences issued against six individuals who were convicted of murder, in the first hangings in the country in two years.
A Kuwaiti woman convicted of murdering her friend was saved from the gallows early on September 5 after a last-minute pardon by the victim’s relatives.
The hanged men included two Kuwaitis, three Iranians and a Pakistani. Some of the men were on death row for as long as five years.
Two hours before the woman was supposed to be hanged, relatives of the victim pardoned her before the police, accepting blood money.
The victim’s mother agreed to submit the waiver for KD 1 million. She went to the Central Prison in the evening, just a few hours before the scheduled execution, and formally declared her waiver.
The public prosecutor then halted the execution. The woman was convicted of premeditated murder of her female friend at the victim’s house by stabbing her several times after having breakfast together, in 2016.
The sources revealed that she is a divorced woman with children.
The reason for the murder was not revealed.
Two of the Iranians hanged were convicted of killing a member of the Al-Sabah ruling family, a Kuwaiti man in his 70s and an Indonesian maid in Salwa for robbery. The men committed the crime in 2016 and were handed the final conviction in 2019. Dozens of men and women are on death row as Kuwait has slowed down the pace of executions over the past two decades under pressure from rights groups calling for a freeze on executions.

18 July 2024 :

Kuwait Court of Appeal, led by Counselor Abdullah Al-Othman, on July 15, 2024 affirmed the death sentence for a young Bedoun man convicted of killing his father. The incident occurred in the Al-Firdous area following a domestic dispute over breakfast.
The court’s decision to uphold the death penalty reflects its stance on the severity of the crime. The convict, whose identity has not been disclosed, used a Kalashnikov rifle to commit the murder after an argument between his parents escalated.
In its ruling, the court emphasized that the nature of the crime warranted the maximum punishment. “The accused deserved the death penalty,” the court stated, indicating a firm refusal to show leniency.

01 July 2024 :

The Court of Appeal on June 30, 2024 rendered a verdict to execute a Kuwaiti citizen convicted of murdering his wife and dismembering her body after she revealed she was pregnant by him.
The gruesome crime unfolded as the accused distributed the victim’s remains across various regions in Kuwait.
During the trial, the victim’s heirs’ legal team advocated for the harshest punishment possible, which in this case is death.
They presented evidence confirming the accused’s commission of the crime and urged the court to add charges related to possession of a murder weapon, specifically a cleaver and a knife procured by the accused for the crime.
The details of the crime were chilling: the accused first extracted the six-month-old fetus from the victim’s abdomen before dismembering her body at the joints and disposing of the parts in different locations.

04 March 2024 :

Kuwait Court of Appeals on March 1, 2024 confirmed a death sentence for Nasra al Enezi, found guilty of igniting a fire at a wedding tent, resulting in the loss of 57 lives, primarily women and children.
This incident occurred in the tribal area of Jahra in August last year.
The fire unfolded during a celebration marking the marriage of al Enezi's husband to another woman. According to reports, the tent, which was illegally erected and lacked adequate exit facilities, was quickly engulfed in flames, leading to a high casualty rate.
Initial investigations linked al Enezi to the act, suggesting it was driven by jealousy. Despite her lawyer's claims of a forced confession and lack of concrete evidence, the courts have remained steadfast in their verdict, pushing the case towards the Supreme Court.
The public and familial reactions to the sentencing have been mixed, with some calling for the maximum penalty in light of the severe psychological and physical trauma suffered, while others question the morality of executing a woman. As the case progresses to the Supreme Court, it not only brings to the forefront the complexities of legal justice in cases of mass tragedy but also underscores the broader societal implications concerning women's rights and capital punishment in Kuwait.

29 January 2024 :

The Criminal Court of Kuwait, presided over by Judge Fawzan Al-Anjari, sentenced to death a Kuwaiti citizen who was convicted of killing his friend in Umm Al-Hayman and burying his body in the Eighth Ring Road project site, Arab Times reported on January 28, 2024.
The court also sentenced the citizen’s brother to two years imprisonment for setting the victim’s vehicle on fire.
According to the case file, Umm Al-Hayman witnessed a heinous murder when a 32-year-old Kuwaiti citizen killed his 33-year-old friend by stabbing him several times, then carried his body and buried it in the Eighth Ring Road project site, after which he set fire to his car and then went to Umm Al-Hayman Police Station where he surrendered himself. The police officers at Umm Al- Hayman Police Station were surprised when the citizen confessed to killing his friend, burying his body in the Eighth Ring Road project site, and setting his friend’s vehicle on fire with the help of his brother. They immediately detained him and made sure he was mentally sound and he was talking about a real incident.
They informed the Deputy Public Prosecutor, who ordered the officers to go with the citizen to the place where he claimed to have buried his friend’s body. After the citizen informed the officers about the location of the body and the vehicle that he set on fire, forensic officers, a forensic doctor, and the deputy public prosecutor went to that location. The body was exhumed by forensic evidence officers and examined by the forensic doctor. It was discovered that the victim had been stabbed multiple times, including a deep stab wound to the neck, which led to his death.