KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait's criminal court sentenced a Filipina housemaid to death on Sunday after convicting her of stabbing to death her employer's 20-year-old daughter, a legal source said.
Prosecutors charged that the maid, identifies as Jakatia Mandon Pawa, stabbed the victim several times with a kitchen knife while she was asleep at dawn on May 14 last year in the al-Qurain district, south of Kuwait City.
After killing the daughter, the maid sustained serious injuries after jumping from the second floor of the victim's house and was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital for several days, prosecutors said.
Defense lawyers demanded that the maid be examined by psychiatrists to determine her mental health but the court turned down the request.
The verdict must be confirmed by the court of appeals and cassation and then endorsed by Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah before it can be carried out.
It is the third time that a death sentence has been handed down against a Filipina in recent months.
On April 1, the supreme court upheld a death sentence against May Vecina for killing the seven-year-old son of her Kuwaiti employer and attempting to kill his elder sister and brother.
In December, after a visit by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo the emir agreed to commute to life imprisonment a death sentence handed down against Marilou Ranario, who was convicted of killing her employer.
Death sentences in the Gulf state are carried out by hanging.
About 73,000 Filipinos, some 60,000 of them women employed mostly as housemaids, work in oil-rich Kuwait. Most earn less than $200 a month, advocates say.
Agence France-Presse
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