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
DECEMBER 14, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: MAN WHO MURDERED WOMAN IN FRONT OF HER DAUGHTER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A stalker who tried to kidnap a woman to force her to marry him and then murdered her in front of her daughter and niece when she refused to go with him has been sentenced to death by hanging in Kuwait, Mirror reported on 14 December 2022.
DECEMBER 7, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: 2 EXPATS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIVES
Two expatriate men, one of them still at large, have been sentenced to death by hanging in Kuwait for murdering their wives, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported.
NOVEMBER 16, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: SEVEN PEOPLE HANGED IN FIRST EXECUTIONS SINCE 2017
Kuwait put seven people to death in a mass execution on November 16, 2022, the state-run KUNA news agency confirmed, making it the first execution since 2017 despite appeals from human rights organisations for clemency.
JULY 27, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: INDIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS
The Criminal Court of Kuwait City sentenced an Indian expat to death by hanging for smuggling in narcotic substances with a market value of about 11,000 dinars with the intent of trafficking, Arab Times reported on 24 July 2022.
- MAY 28, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: AN ETHIOPIAN IS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN INDIAN COLLEAGUE
The Ethiopian woman who stabbed her Indian colleague to death has been sentenced to death by the Court of Appeals, Kuwaitlocal reported on 27 May 2022.
FEBRUARY 19, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: SISTER KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced a man to death on charges of murdering his sister in a case that had triggered outrage in the country, Gulf News on 17 February reported, citing local media.
FEBRUARY 17, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: INDIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A Kuwaiti criminal court had sentenced an Indian expatriate to death on charges of dealing in illicit drugs, a local newspaper reported on 16 February 2022.
- DECEMBER 19, 2021KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: ETHIOPIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING INDIAN MAN
The Criminal Department of the High Court of Kuwait, headed by Counselor Abdullah Al-Othman, sentenced to
NOVEMBER 4, 2021KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING HUSBAND
Kuwait’s Court of Appeals on 2 November 2021 upgraded the sentence of a woman, who killed her husband last year, from life in prison to the death penalty after she was convicted of premeditated murder, local media reported.
- JULY 10, 2021KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF MOTHER OF TWO
A Kuwaiti court on 6 July 2021 sentenced a man to death after convicting him of the kidnap and murder of a mother of two, a crime that shocked the emirate.
- DECEMBER 31, 2020KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: EMPLOYER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FILIPINA DOMESTIC WORKER
A Kuwaiti citizen has been sentenced to death a year after killing her Filipina domestic worker.
DECEMBER 28, 2020KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: EGYPTIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING KUWAITI WOMAN AND HER SAUDI MOTHER
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.