[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

May 31





INDIA:

Tumakuru: Court awards death penalty to man who beheaded wife


Through a verdict delivered on Tuesday May 30, the 4th additional district and 
sessions court at Madhugiri in the district awarded death sentence to a man who 
had killed his wife. The convict had stabbed his wife before beheading her and 
escaping.

Nanjappa, resident of Maddalacheruvu village near Hindupur in Seemandhra had 
murdered his wife, Laxmidevi, on October 15, 2015 in Vallur village near 
Nagalamadike which falls under the jurisdiction of Tirumani police station in 
Pavagada taluk in the district. A case about the murder had been registered in 
Tirumani police station.

The police had investigated the case and filed charge sheet. The court treated 
this as rarest of the rare cases before deciding on awarding capital punishment 
to the accused. The court relied heavily on the evidence of Nandini, daughter 
of the couple, in holding the accused guilty of the gory offence.

(source: daijiworld.com)






VIETNAM:

Vietnamese inmate gets 2nd death sentence for heroin trafficking----He was 
found guilty of instructing 4 men to traffic more than 100 kilos of heroin. All 
have received death sentences.


A court in the central province of Nghe An on Tuesday sentenced 5 Vietnamese 
men to death for trafficking over 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin.

The alleged ringleader Phan Dinh Tuan, 46, was already a death row inmate, 
convicted in 2015 also for heroin trafficking.

Investigators said he had still managed to run the ring from inside the prison.

He told the court that he managed to contact four of his men thanks to a mobile 
phone that his partner, Nguyen Thi Huong, smuggled into the prison for him 
during a visit.

He also accused Huong of being the real mastermind who benefited from the 
crime.

The court refused to consider his request for a fresh investigation, founding 
him and the other 4 men guilty. Their ages range from 28 to 53.

Huong was sentenced to 12 months in jail for failure to report the crime.

Tuan then told the court that a 2nd death sentence did not trouble him, but he 
would appeal the ruling because he insisted he was not the ringleader.

Vietnam has some of the world's toughest drug laws. Those convicted of 
possessing or smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 
kilograms of methamphetamine face the death penalty.

The production or sale of 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal 
narcotics is also punishable by death.

(source: vnexpress.net)






KUWAIT:

Man who killed police officer sentenced to death in Kuwait----Hit and run 
driver wounds 5 others as people celebrate Kuwait National Day


A court in Kuwait has sentenced a Kuwaiti to death for killing 1 police officer 
and wounding 5 others.

The crime occurred in February 2016 as the country was celebrating its National 
Day.

Reports said that the driver was involved in a hit and run accident after he 
drove into a security check-point and tried to escape.

As officers chased him, he took out a knife he had concealed under his clothes 
and stabbed 1 of them killing him. He was eventually subdued and arrested.

The police said the dead police officer was Turki Mohammad Al Enzi and that the 
murderer, Abdul Aziz Al Shamlan, was 22 years old.

The court said the death verdict was based on the police reports, the 
confessions of the defendant and on the medical report.

The murderer's father said at the time that no sensible person would target 
police officers and explained that his son had mental problems.

"My son has an incident previously and was admitted to a local hospital 3 
months ago," he was quoted as saying. "We do not in any way condone what 
happened to the police officers who are protecting Kuwait and its security."

News of the murder shocked Kuwait, especially that the nation was in a festive 
mood and recovering from the suicide bombing inside a mosque in June 2015 that 
killed 27 people and injured 227.

(source: Gulf News)