
Death upheld for Kuwait woman for wedding carnage
Story here. Remember this one from a while back? Apparently the ruling has been in appeal for some time and they finally decided on it. You may wonder why I am posting this one. The issue here is that it is so rare that a woman is sentenced to death and that this sentence is upheld, whether this be in a western or another country, that it is positively newsworthy. Men being sentenced to death isn't news, however, it's par for the course. Excerpt:
'KUWAIT CITY (AFP) – Kuwait's supreme court on Sunday upheld a woman's death sentence for setting ablaze her husband's wedding tent, killing 57 women and children.
Nasra Yussef Mohammed al-Enezi, 24, was condemned to death by a lower and appeals courts for the apparent act of revenge against her husband for taking a second wife.
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The August 15, 2009 inferno engulfed the women-and-children-only tent in minutes and triggered a stampede. The final death toll was 57, including Saudis and stateless Arabs.
If Enezi is hanged, she would be the first Kuwaiti woman to be executed in the Gulf state's history. Three foreign women have been hanged.
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The last execution in the emirate dates back to mid-2007 although dozens of convicts are on death row.'
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