Kuwait’s Supreme Court upheld on Monday
a death sentence against a woman for torturing her Filipino maid to death and
confirmed a 10-year sentence on her disabled husband.
The ruling is final and cannot be
challenged but could be commuted to a life term by the ruler of the Gulf
emirate. Executions in Kuwait are carried out by hanging.
The Kuwaiti woman was convicted of
premeditated murder based on evidence that she had regularly tortured her maid
before driving over her in a remote desert area.
The husband was handed the jail term
for “assisting her,” according to a copy of the ruling.
The couple were both sentenced to
death by the lower court in February last year. Three months later, the appeals
court upheld the death penalty against the woman but commuted the sentence
against her husband to 10 years in jail.
According to the ruling, the woman
beat her maid for several days until her health deteriorated.
The couple then took the “unconscious”
maid to a remote area in the desert where they threw her from the back seat of
the car and then drove over her until she died.
More than 100,000 Filipinos, many of them women
working as maids, live in Kuwait, where some 600,000 domestic helpers, mostly
Asians, are employed.
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