Sri Lankan national Sanjaya Rowan Kumara was hanged on this date in 2006 at Kuwait’s Central Prison for murdering a woman while robbing her house.
He was pronounced dead and cut down within eight minutes. But …
medics who transported his body to a morgue said they noticed he was still moving, Al-Qabas daily reported.
Forensic experts were immediately called to examine the body and they confirmed that “there was some weak pulse in his heart,” the daily said.
The examination was repeated several times and each time “the dead body showed some signs of life,” Al-Qabas quoted unnamed medical sources as saying.
“They eventually pronounced him completely dead at 1400 hours local time,” five hours after his hanging, the sources said.
The justice ministry refused to comment on the report but head of the criminal execution department, Najeeb al-Mulla, who supervised the hanging, told Al-Watan newspaper the report was “baseless.”
On this day..
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- 1857: Two surviving members of the Aiken Party
- 1405: Astorre I Manfredi, former lord of Faenza
- 1798: Dennis Nugent, for child rape
- 764: St. Stephen the Younger, iconodule martyr
- 2008: Wo Weihan, spy?
- 1828: James "Little Jim" Guild
- 1721: Cartouche, French bandit
- 1783: Johanna Catharina Höhn, by Goethe's vote
- 1871: Louis Rossel, Théophile Ferré, and Sergeant Bourgeois, Communards
- 1950: James Corbitt, the hangman's mate
- 1922: Six Greek former ministers of state