Kuwait
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 5
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 17
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The death penalty is provided for by laws based on...
- News items in the archive
- 257
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Kuwait is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 5 executions in the country, against 17 the year before. The archive holds 257 news items on Kuwait, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2001KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is provided for by laws based on...
The death penalty is provided for by laws based on the Shari'a
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
A Kuwaiti court sentenced to death a Kuwaiti national...
A Kuwaiti court sentenced to death a Kuwaiti national and three Pakistanis for drug smuggling
- AUGUST 5, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Alaa Hussein, the former head of Iraq's puppet occupation...
Alaa Hussein, the former head of Iraq's puppet occupation government in Kuwait, appealed against his death sentence in a final bid to escape possible execution for treason
- JULY 20, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
UN Human Rights Committee considered a report presented...
UN Human Rights Committee considered a report presented by the Government of Kuwait on the fulfilment of its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights including the question of capital punishment
- JUNE 20, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait's Court of Appeals upheld a death sentence against...
Kuwait's Court of Appeals upheld a death sentence against Kader Bee Palagiri, a 22 year old Indian maid, for killing her 80-year-old Kuwaiti employer and stealing her money and jewellery in 1999
- MAY 9, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Four Iranians were sentenced to death for drug smuggling
Four Iranians were sentenced to death for drug smuggling
- JANUARY 1, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait has executed 35 people since introducing the...
Kuwait has executed 35 people since introducing the death penalty in 1964
- JANUARY 1, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences, which are normally carried out by...
Death sentences, which are normally carried out by hanging, can be appealed twice and must receive the final approval of Sheikh JaberAl-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Emir
- JANUARY 1, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Sexual molesters in Kuwait are charged with capital...
Sexual molesters in Kuwait are charged with capital punishment
- JANUARY 1, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is provided for by laws based on...
The death penalty is provided for by laws based on the Shari'a
- DECEMBER 13, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
On December 13, Kuwait's Court of Appeals sentenced...
On December 13, Kuwait's Court of Appeals sentenced Rameez Khan, a Pakistani, to death for heroin smuggling
- NOVEMBER 3, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
On November 3, a Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced a...
On November 3, a Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced a young Indian Qadeer Kaleeja, 22, who strangled Aisha Al-Fadalah in her bed to death, and also stole money and jewelry
- JULY 22, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Kuwait signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- MAY 11, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, Alex Gerengan Second Secretary of the Philippines...
On May 11, Alex Gerengan Second Secretary of the Philippines embassy announced that a Kuwaiti court had sentenced Danilo Espino, a Filipino Christian citizen, to death on May 10 for killing his Muslim girlfriend Rocaya S
- APRIL 27, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
On April 27, a court sentenced 2 Iranians, Abdallah...
On April 27, a court sentenced 2 Iranians, Abdallah Abdel-Amir Nassari and Saed Mohsen Razij, to death for drug smuggling, while 3 others received life sentences
- JANUARY 6, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
On January 6, newspapers reported that in Kuwait City,...
On January 6, newspapers reported that in Kuwait City, a group of MPs called for the Islamic punishments of flogging, amputation and stoning to be introduced to Kuwait
- JANUARY 1, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is provided for by laws based on...
The death penalty is provided for by laws based on the Shari'a