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Death Penalty by firing squad
Death Penalty by stoning
Open Executions are rare in the UAE. Since 1997, nine people including a
woman, are known to have been executed in the UAE. All had been
convicted of murder. A number of people have been sentenced to death for
drug offences. However, no one is known to have been executed on drug
charges.
Executions are usually by firing-squad" The execution which enforces
Islamic sharia law is being carried out by a firing squad.
Death sentences may be appealed to the ruler of the emirate in which the
offense is committed, or to the president of the federation, although in
the case of murder, only the victim's family may commute a death
sentence. The government normally negotiates with victims' families for
the defendant to offer financial compensation, or diya, to the victims'
families to receive their forgiveness and commute death sentences.
Death Penalty by firing squad
United Arab Emirates member state Dubai has executed a Pakistani man,
Attaullah Khair Mohammed by firing squad for murdering an Indian
watchman. The official Emirates News quoted family sources as saying
that Mohammed was put to death on Monday (June 01, 1998) morning at a
local shooting range. A number of officials from the public prosecutor's
office watched the execution.
The United Arab Emirates court of appeals in Al-Fujeira convicted an
Iranian to death after he was found guilty of smuggling drugs. "The
Gulf" daily published this (UAE to execute Iranian trader: United Arab
Emirates, Judicial, 6/19/1998) in Dubai said the court sentenced one
Iranian to 10 years imprisonment for smuggling drugs and another four
Iranian as drug users. However, the sentence was resumed on the grounds
of the law approved in 1995 providing for death penalty over drug
smuggling. Between 1996-1998 eight persons have been executed in the UAE
according to this law.
Death Penalty by stoning
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sentenced foreign nationals to death
by stoning for adultery.
In February 2000, a Shari'a (Islamic) court in the Emirate ordered an
Indonesian domestic worker Kartini bint Karim, to be stoned to death,
reportedly after she confessed to adultery. During her appeal, however,
she reportedly denied that she had confessed to adultery and her lawyer
is said to have argued that this would not have been possible as she
does not speak Arabic.
Later, an appeal court in the Emirate of Fujairah, where she had been
working legally, fortunately overturned the death sentence against
Kartini bint Karim to one year's imprisonment, with an order that she be
deported at the end of her sentence.
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