Two Saudi nationals and a Kuwaiti convicted of the...

Two Saudi nationals and a Kuwaiti convicted of the abduction, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl were executed in Kuwait, and their corpses displayed in public.
The three men were hanged in front of the interior ministry in Kuwait City before hundreds of spectators, including dozens of the girl's relatives, were allowed to view the limp bodies.
Female relatives of the girl, Amna al-Khaledi, a bidoon or stateless Arab, celebrated the hanging after they were allowed inside. Marzook Saad Suleiman al-Saeed, 25, Saeed Saad Suleiman al-Saeed, 28, and 24-year-old Kuwaiti Hamad Mubarak Turki al-Dihani were convicted through three Kuwaiti courts, and the death sentence endorsed by Emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
A third Saudi, Latifa Mandil Suleiman al-Saeed, a 21-year-old female cousin of the convicted brothers, was sentenced to life in prison for taking part in the abduction.
The victim was kidnapped from her home on May 1, 2002 and driven to a remote desert area, where she was raped by the men and then stabbed five times in the chest before her throat was slit. Her elder brother, Adel al-Khaledi, who was also a bidoon, was sentenced to five years in prison for conducting an illicit sexual relationship with the Saudi woman.
Soon after the trio were arrested, some three weeks after the child's body was found, several local newspapers reported the crime as an "honour killing". Honour killings are committed in parts of the Arab and Muslim world to avenge a perceived affront to a family's honour, such as an out-of-wedlock relationship or a female relative marrying without her parents' consent.
Kuwait's public prosecutor Hamed al-Othman, top police and judicial officials attended the hanging. The execution was the fourth case of hanging in which the public was allowed to view the bodies since 2002, when three Bangladeshi men, convicted of murder, were hanged.