Kuwait's Court of Appeals has upheld the death sentence handed to a man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and placing her body in a suitcase in an attempt to smuggle it out of the country.
The Criminal Court had initially sentenced the man to death and eight years of imprisonment for additional charges, including desecrating a corpse, misusing a telephone, drug use, and the unlawful detainment of the victim. The Court of Appeals upheld the death penalty while amending the primary charge to the premeditated murder of the victim by strangulation.
Following reports from a medical committee which concluded that the man did not suffer from mental illness, the Public Prosecution requested the maximum penalty of death. The prosecution described the man as "a wolf who devoured the innocence of the victim with his claws, robbing her of her right to life, a right enshrined in all divine religions and forbidden to be violated."
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