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)
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