Kuwait
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional monarchy
- CONSTITUTION
- November 11, 1962
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- Mixed legal system of English, French, and Islamic law based on civil law, incorporates elements of Islamic law regarding human rights
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly (Majlis al-umma)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Constitutional Court; Court of Cassation, High Court of Appeals
RELIGIONS
85% Muslim, 15% Christian
From the country
JULY 31, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FATAL ABUSE OF DOMESTIC WORKER
A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced a husband and wife to death by hanging for the fatal beating of their domestic worker.
MAY 5, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: GUJARAT MAN HANGED FOR MURDERING HIS EMPLOYER IN 2019
A 38-year-old resident of Mohammadali Chowk in Kapadvanj (Gujarat), Mustakim Bhathiara, was executed in Kuwait on April 28, 2025 after being convicted in a 2019 murder case.
APRIL 29, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: FIVE EXECUTED AS TWO CONVICTS WIN PARDON, ONE AWAITS FATE
The Correctional Facilities Sector at the Kuwait Ministry of Interior executed five individuals convicted of premeditated murder at the Central Prison on April 28, 2025.
- APRIL 9, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER-IN-LAW WITH KALASHNIKOV
The Court of Cassation on April 8, 2025 upheld the verdict issued by the Court of Appeals which sentenced a 40-year-old Kuwaiti citizen to death for murdering his mother-in-law using a Kalashnikov rifle in Wafra.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: EXPAT GUARD SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SCHOOL TEACHER
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.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: SIX EXECUTED, FEMALE CONVICT SPARED AT FINAL HOUR
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.
- JULY 18, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR BEDOUN MAN FOR FATHER’S MURDER
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.
JULY 1, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WIFE’S MURDER AND DISMEMBERMENT
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.
JUNE 11, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: COURT ON CASSATION SENTENCES TWO IRANIANS TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
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 Kubb
MARCH 4, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR WOMAN BEHIND FATAL WEDDING TENT FIRE
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.
JANUARY 29, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
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
DECEMBER 7, 2023KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: EGYPTIAN AND KUWAITI TO HANG FOR KILLING RASHIDI
The Criminal Court on December 4, 2023 sentenced a Kuwaiti citizen and an Egyptian expatriate, who were charged with Mubarak Al-Rashidi's murder, to death by hanging.