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- AUGUST 11, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS FOUR FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged four convicted of drug trafficking in a prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the state-run television's website reported.
- AUGUST 11, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO TAXI DRIVERS GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING AUSTRALIAN TOURIST
in a Delhi Court in India, two taxi drivers were sentenced to death for killing 59 year old Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs after gang raping and robbing her in 2004.
- AUGUST 11, 2008UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH
the Kabale High Court in Uganda sentenced two men to death for murder in separate cases.
- AUGUST 11, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC CAN FIX TENURE OF LIFE TERM IN LIEU OF DEATH PENALTY
the Indian Supreme Court ruled that in order to minimize the use of death penalty, it has the power to fix tenure of life imprisonment while substituting it for death sentence.
- AUGUST 10, 2008IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: WASSIT COURT UPHOLDS 8 DEATH SENTENCES
the public body of the Court of Cassation in Iraq upheld a ruling made by the Central Criminal Court, which sentenced eight people to death for kidnapping and murdering civilians, an anonymous source from Wassit's Federal Court of Appeal said.
- AUGUST 10, 2008BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN SLAMMED OVER DEATH PENALTY LEGISLATION
proposed legislation enforcing the death penalty for people found guilty of disclosing state secrets and documents to rival nations was condemned by a leading human rights group in Bahrain.
- AUGUST 10, 2008TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: PLAN TO PHASE OUT DEATH PENALTY OPPOSED
ruling Taiwanese Kuomintang (KMT) lawmakers said that they oppose a Ministry of Justice plan to phase out the death penalty, claiming that a lack of capital punishment would increase the crime rate.
- AUGUST 9, 2008AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHAN DAILY URGES GOVERNMENT TO PUNISH CRIMINALS ACCORDING TO SHARI'AH
in an editorial, the independent Afghan newspaper Cheragh urged the government to punish criminals according to Shari’ah law.
- AUGUST 9, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN TO EXECUTE FOUR FOR RAPING A MAN
a court in Iran handed death sentences to four men including a minor for raping a man after a fight, the Etemad Melli newspaper reported.
- AUGUST 8, 2008ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
ARGENTINA: SCRAPPING OF MILITARY CODE OF JUSTICE WELCOMED
Amnesty International USA welcomed the decision by the Argentine Parliament to scrap the 1951 Military Code of Justice, thus abolishing the death penalty in all cases and closing military courts of justice.
- AUGUST 8, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, 2 KIDS
after the Punjab and Haryana High Court confirmed the death sentence of a man for killing his wife and two children in Jalandhar in March 2005, Judge BK Mehta of a local additional sessions court issued warrants for his execution on September 20.
- AUGUST 8, 2008MexicoDEATH PENALTY
USA / MEXICO / WORLD - The execution of a Mexican citizen, Jose Ernesto Medellin, by the United States against the orders of the UN's highest court highlights a flaw in international law
USA / MEXICO / WORLD - The execution of a Mexican citizen, Jose Ernesto Medellin, by the United States against the orders of the UN's highest court highlights a flaw in international law