Kuwait hanged 7 prisoners in a mass execution on Wednesday Jan 25,2017, including a royal family member and a woman convicted of killing 58 women and children when she set fire to a wedding tent, the first death sentences carried out in several years in the oil-rich emirate.
Those executed included a Bangladeshi, a Filipina, an Ethiopian, two Kuwaitis and two Egyptians, according to a statement carried on the state-run KUNA news agency.
KUNA said that all had been convicted of murder except the Bangladeshi man, who was convicted of rape, kidnapping and theft.
Kuwait's ruler, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, authorized the executions, which were carried out in the morning in the country's central prison.
Executions are fairly rare in Kuwait, which has the world's sixth-largest oil reserves. The last were carried out in 2013, when a Pakistani, a Saudi and a "Bidoon" a name used in the emirate for people without citizenship were hung.
Wednesday's executions drew immediate criticism from Amnesty International, which opposes the death penalty.
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