Kuwait hanged a prince in the ruling Al-Sabah family on Wednesday for premeditated murder, state news agency KUNA reported, in what appeared to be the fist execution of a member of the royal family in the Gulf state.
Sheikh Faisal Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was hanged at Kuwait’s central prison alongside six other prisoners, including a woman convicted of killing dozens of people at her husband’s wedding to second wife.
Al-Sabah’s crime was “premeditated murder and possession of a firearm and ammunition without a license,” KUNA said.
The prince was sentenced to death in 2010 for killing his nephew, another prince, according to Kuwaiti newspapers. (Reuters)
