Killer of Kuwaiti journalist sentenced to death

The Kuwaiti criminal court on Sunday sentenced to death Khaled Naqa al-Azimi, who was accused of killing the chief editor of the Kuwaiti magazine Hedaya Sultan al-Salem.

The Kuwaiti attorney general department said that the convict al-Azimi had committed the crime of killing Hedaya al-Salem in March 2001 when he shot her to death by several bullets while she was in her car in one of the streets of Kuwait.