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- NOVEMBER 29, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO MURDERED LOVER
the Criminal Appeal Court in Ras Al Khaimah, the northern most emirate of the UAE, upheld the death penalty pronounced by the emirate's Criminal Court on Mohammad Asad, a 27-year-old Pakistani illegal immigrant convicted of murdering his lover with an axe
- NOVEMBER 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. WEST BENGAL HOUSE CONDEMNS DEATH SENTENCE FOR SADDAM
the West Bengal Assembly, India...
- NOVEMBER 29, 2006KentuckyDEATH PENALTY
KENTUCKY COURT ORDERS STATE TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS ON LETHAL INJECTION PROCESS
in a ruling that may put all executions on hold in the state of Kentucky, a Franklin County Circuit Judge held that the state must hold public hearings because it changed the way the state plans to carry out executions.
NOVEMBER 29, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. THREE PROTESTANT LEADERS CONDEMNED WITHOUT PROOF EXECUTED IN SECRET
the leaders of a Protestant group “Three Grades of Servants”, condemned to death without proof, were executed in secret last week, according to the China Aid Association (CAA), a US-based non-governmental organisation that lobbies for religious freedom in
NOVEMBER 29, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH. MAN HANGED FOR KILLING EIGHT FROM SAME FAMILY
Safiqul Islam Montu, 45, was executed in Comilla Central Jail, Bangladesh, at 12:30am local time.
NOVEMBER 29, 2006KuwaitDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKAN STILL ALIVE FIVE HOURS AFTER HANGING IN KUWAIT: REPORTS
a Sri Lankan national who was executed in Kuwait for murdering an Asian woman during a robbery remained alive five hours after he was hanged and pronounced dead, newspapers reported
- NOVEMBER 28, 2006CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Jeffrey Young was sentenced to death for the 1999 murders...
Jeffrey Young was sentenced to death for the 1999 murders of two people gunned down during a botched robbery at a parking lot.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT SETS ASIDE DEATH PENALTY OF MURDER ACCUSED
in a landmark judgment, a division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa, India, set aside the death sentence awarded to Soiru alias Sarvanand Gaonkar, an accused in a murder case reported at Cuncolim on June 28, 2004, and acquitted him of the crime.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED FOR THREE ACCUSED OF KIDNAP
the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, commuted into life the death sentence handed down to three men by the anti-terrorism court (ATC) on December 15, 2003 for kidnapping a man for ransom.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH FOR MILITANTS
death sentences for six Islamist militants convicted of bomb attacks that killed at least 30 people in Bangladesh in 2005 have been upheld, a Supreme Court official said.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. SENTENCES OF EXECUTION BY STONING REVERSED FOR TWO IRANIAN WOMEN
branch 15 of Iran's Supreme Court ordered the dismissal of charges of "adultery" in the cases of Parisa and Najaf Akbari.
NOVEMBER 28, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ SHOULD NOT CARRY DEATH PENALTY AGAINST SADDAM-UN
U.N. human rights experts called on Iraq's government not to carry out the death sentence passed on former leader Saddam Hussein, saying his trial had been seriously flawed.