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Article: Kuwait's highest court upholds life sentence for fundamentalist who killed one American and wounded another
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- December 21, 2004
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AP Worldstream
12-21-2004
Dateline: KUWAIT CITY
Kuwait's highest appeal court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a Muslim fundamentalist who shot dead an American civilian and seriously wounded another, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The court of cassation, whose ruling is final and does not allow for appeal, gave no explanation of its decision Tuesday. Kuwaiti judges tend to issue their reasons a week after their rulings.
A criminal court had convicted Sami al-Mutairi, a 26-year-old civil servant, of killing Michael Rene Pouliot, 46, and seriously wounding David Caraway, 37, in a shooting attack near a U.S. base in Kuwait in January 2003.
The court condemned al-Mutairi to death, but ...