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
JUNE 5, 2014KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: RAPIST POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING FILIPINA
The Criminal Court has sentenced a lance corporal in the General Traffic Department to death by hanging for kidnapping a Filipino woman, raping her and attempting to murder her, reports Al-Rai daily.
MAY 26, 2014KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: COURT COMMUTES IRAQI’S DEATH SENTENCE
Kuwait’s appeals court commuted the death sentence of an Iraqi fisherman who killed a coast guard to life
- MAY 6, 2014EgyptDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: EGYPTIAN DUO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING COMPATRIOT
In Kuwait, the Criminal Court presided over by Justice Waleed Al-Kandari sentenced two Egyptian
- JANUARY 1, 2014KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is provided for by laws based on the Sharia.
The death penalty is provided for by laws based on the Sharia.
- NOVEMBER 25, 2013KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait's supreme court upheld a death sentence
Kuwait's supreme court upheld a death sentence
JUNE 26, 2013EthiopiaDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: DEATH SENTENCE FOR BRIDE KILLER
A Kuwaiti court sentenced an Ethiopian domestic helper to death for killing a Kuwaiti bride a day before
JUNE 18, 2013EgyptDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: TWO MORE CONVICTS EXECUTED
two convicted rapists and killers were put to death in a Kuwaiti prison in Salibiya. It was Kuwait’s second
- JUNE 17, 2013KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait’s Cassation Court changed life sentences to death
Kuwait’s Cassation Court changed life sentences to death
- JUNE 16, 2013KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
the Court of Cassation, in Kuwait, upheld the verdict of the Criminal and Appeals
the Court of Cassation, in Kuwait, upheld the verdict of the Criminal and Appeals
- JUNE 16, 2013KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: BLOOD MONEY SAVES 2 INDIANS FROM GALLOWS
just two days before they were to go under the executioner’s blade in Kuwait City’s central
JUNE 2, 2013KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER OF LEBANESE DENTIST
A Kuwait court sentenced four people to death for killing a Lebanese national in an assault at a shopping
MAY 23, 2013KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
A Kuwaiti court sentenced an officer to death for killing another officer.