United Kingdom 2004
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News on United Kingdom in 2004
- APRIL 14, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
More than 150 British MPs backed a parliamentary motion...
More than 150 British MPs backed a parliamentary motion to secure justice for Kenny Richey, who had spent the last 17 years on death row in Ohio
- APRIL 14, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
More than 150 British MPs backed a parliamentary motion...
More than 150 British MPs backed a parliamentary motion to secure justice for Kenny Richey, who had spent the last 17 years on death row in Ohio
- APRIL 8, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The United Kingdom abolished the death penalty for murder on December 18, 1969
The United Kingdom abolished the death penalty for murder on December 18, 1969
- APRIL 6, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Jack McConnell was urged to help prevent the execution...
Jack McConnell was urged to help prevent the execution of Kenny Richey, a Scot who had spent almost 18 years on death row in the US state of Ohio
- APRIL 6, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Jack McConnell was urged to help prevent the execution...
Jack McConnell was urged to help prevent the execution of Kenny Richey, a Scot who had spent almost 18 years on death row in the US state of Ohio
- MARCH 24, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British teenager Alan Connell narrowly escaped the...
British teenager Alan Connell narrowly escaped the death penalty in Thailand when a court commuted his sentence to life imprisonment for trafficking thousands of ecstasy pills
- MARCH 23, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The family and supporters of Linda Carty, a British...
The family and supporters of Linda Carty, a British woman on death row in Texas for murder, called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene
- MARCH 22, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners...
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica could win a reprieve if an unprecedented privy council hearing beginning in London ruled that the mandatory death penalty for murder was unconstitutional
- MARCH 22, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The campaign had been spearheaded by the London law...
The campaign had been spearheaded by the London law firm Simons Muirhead and Burton, which represented three of the four men appeal including, Charles Matthews, from Trinidad, and Lennox Boyce and Jeffrey Joseph, from Barbados
- FEBRUARY 16, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Britain told Zimbabwe it had promise not to execute...
Britain told Zimbabwe it had promise not to execute opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai if it wanted London's assistance in his treason trial
- FEBRUARY 11, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped dramatically...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped dramatically into the Kenny Richey case - promising "to make inquiries myself" about the Scot on Death Row in Ohio
- FEBRUARY 9, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Asylum seekers in Northern Ireland were being sent...
Asylum seekers in Northern Ireland were being sent home to imminent death due to Government failures, an Amnesty International report entitled 'Get it right: How Home Office Decision Making Fails Refugees' claimed
- FEBRUARY 8, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife, Cherie Blair,...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife, Cherie Blair, renewed her attack on America's use of the death penalty
- JANUARY 26, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Scottish death row inmate Kenny Richey spoke of his...
Scottish death row inmate Kenny Richey spoke of his frustration as he waited the legal decision on his fate
- JANUARY 26, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Scottish death row inmate Kenny Richey spoke of his...
Scottish death row inmate Kenny Richey spoke of his frustration as he waited the legal decision on his fate
- JANUARY 4, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British Home Secretary David Blunkett said that a life...
British Home Secretary David Blunkett said that a life sentence must mean exactly that for the worst murderers as there was no capital punishment in the country