Kuwait’s supreme court on Monday upheld the death sentence handed down to the main convict in the Islamic State group bombing of a mosque that killed 26 people.

Kuwait’s supreme court on Monday upheld the death sentence handed down to the main convict in the Islamic State group bombing of a mosque that killed 26 people. The court confirmed the sentence of capital punishment passed on Abdulrahman Sabah Saud, a stateless man who drove the Saudi suicide bomber to the mosque in June last year. The court also upheld jail terms of between two and 15 years for eight people and acquitted 15 others.