Manama: Kuwait has rejected criticism of its decision to go ahead with the execution of seven convicts, insisting that all legal avenues had been exhausted. Human Rights Watch said that hanging seven people by Kuwait was part of a worrying regional rise in use of the death penalty. However, Kuwait dismissed the criticism and said that the "carrying out of the death sentences against the seven individuals convicted of murder was according to the provisions of the Kuwaiti Penal Code." "The verdicts were upheld by the Cassation Court, the country's highest court, and became res judicata that could not be challenged. Kuwait on Wednesday executed seven individuals, four men and three women, in the Central Prison.

Source: Ethiopian News January 28, 2017 09:33 UTC