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[h=1]A final cigarette... then the hangman's noose: Three men put to death in Kuwaiti car park in country's first execution in six years[/h]
Blindfolded, his hands bound, a condemned prisoner puffs desperately on a final cigarette.
Just a few minutes later he and two others are led up a short flight of stairs, nooses are placed around their necks before a trapdoor opens beneath their feet. This is justice Kuwait-style.
The Gulf-Arab state hanged three convicted murderers today, the first executions to take place there since 2007, state news agency KUNA reported.
Sentenced to death: Three men hang from the scaffolding in Kuwait in the first executions in the country since 2007
Last cigarette: A Saudi man is allowed a final smoke before being led to the gallows
Final minutes: One of the three convicted murderers is seen before being led to his death
The three were a Pakistani, a Saudi and a stateless man who were hooded and bound before being hung from gallows outside the Central Prison, official pictures showed.
They had been found guilty in three separate murder cases. Authorities had invited journalists from Kuwaiti publications to witness the executions.
The last recorded case of the death penalty being carried out in Kuwait was six years ago when a Pakistani man was executed for drug trafficking, according to Amnesty International.
No escape: The Saudi prisoner is held by two executioners as he puffs on his final cigarette
The sentenced prisoner is pictured blindfolded and smoking as he led away to his execution
Final minutes: Two of the three men are walked up on to the scaffolding platform to their execution
Kuwait, which has a population of around three and a half million people, operates a judicial system which is a mixture of Islamic Sharia law, English common law, and the Ottoman civil code.
The state carried out 72 executions (69 men and three women) between April 1964 and May 2007.
Crimes that carry the death sentence include drug trafficking, murder and treason. Sentences are not carried out publically however members of the media act as witnesses and pictures are published in the hope it will act as a deterrent
KUNA said 48 people remain on death row in Kuwait.
A medic prepares to examine one of the executed men to confirm sentence has been carried out
Medics check one of the executed men to ensure his heart has stopped
Lifeless: Undertakers arrive to remove the bodies of the three men
|No escape: The feet of two of the men are seen dangling above the ground after the sentence was carried out
An executioner, his hand still on the handle that operates the trap door through which the prisoner falls to his death, looks down with a colleague at the lifeless body
- Three men convicted of murder hanged today in the Gulf Arab state
- One from Saudi Arabia, one from Pakistan and one without a nationality
- Last execution was a drug trafficker in 2007 but 72 have been killed since '64
Blindfolded, his hands bound, a condemned prisoner puffs desperately on a final cigarette.
Just a few minutes later he and two others are led up a short flight of stairs, nooses are placed around their necks before a trapdoor opens beneath their feet. This is justice Kuwait-style.
The Gulf-Arab state hanged three convicted murderers today, the first executions to take place there since 2007, state news agency KUNA reported.
Final minutes: One of the three convicted murderers is seen before being led to his death
The three were a Pakistani, a Saudi and a stateless man who were hooded and bound before being hung from gallows outside the Central Prison, official pictures showed.
They had been found guilty in three separate murder cases. Authorities had invited journalists from Kuwaiti publications to witness the executions.
The last recorded case of the death penalty being carried out in Kuwait was six years ago when a Pakistani man was executed for drug trafficking, according to Amnesty International.
Kuwait, which has a population of around three and a half million people, operates a judicial system which is a mixture of Islamic Sharia law, English common law, and the Ottoman civil code.
The state carried out 72 executions (69 men and three women) between April 1964 and May 2007.
Crimes that carry the death sentence include drug trafficking, murder and treason. Sentences are not carried out publically however members of the media act as witnesses and pictures are published in the hope it will act as a deterrent
KUNA said 48 people remain on death row in Kuwait.
|No escape: The feet of two of the men are seen dangling above the ground after the sentence was carried out
