Kuwait is a small monarchy in the Middle East, with a population of around four million people, headed by the Amir who governs with a Council of Ministers. It gained independence from Britain on the 19th of June 1961 and approved its constitution on the 11th of November 1962. The Kuwaiti judicial system is based on the Egyptian model, being a mixture … Read more
Perhaps one of the most sensational and unusual cases of modern times in the Far East reached its conclusion on November 2nd, 2001, when Maznah Ismail, her husband Mohd Affandi Abdul Rahman, and their 31-year-old helper, Juraimi Hussin, were hanged at Malaysia’s Kajang Prison on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Maznah was better known as … Read more
Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch was the first white woman to be hanged in the southern African state of Botswana and the only white woman to be hanged in Africa for many years. She was the fourth woman to be executed in Botswana since independence from Britain in 1966 and went to the gallows on the 31st … Read more
The Crime and Execution Flor Contemplacion, a 42-year-old Filipina domestic maid, was convicted by a Singaporean court of killing another Filipina maid, Delia Maga, and Nicholas Huang, the three-year-old Singaporean son of Maga’s employer, on May 4th, 1991. She had originally confessed to the murders. It was, however, later claimed that she made the confession … Read more
Introduction Angel Mou Pui-peng, a 25-year-old unmarried mother, was hanged in Changi Prison before dawn on Friday the 6th of January 1995. She became the 95th person (and third woman) to hang under Singapore’s strict 1975 anti-drug laws. Cheuk Mei-mei, 29, also from Hong Kong, was executed in 1994, and another three women were executed … Read more
