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AUGUST 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. PEOPLE EXECUTED IN A HURRY
Pakistan has resorted to hurried executions to reduce congestion of overcrowded jails holding death row inmates as also to deal with the spiralling crime rate in the country, a human rights body has claimed.
AUGUST 1, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH. THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Additional District and Sessions court in Jhenidah, Bangladesh, sentenced three men to death and four others to life imprisonment for the murder of a man over land dispute in Kulbaria, Harinakunda district.
- JULY 31, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER 27 DAYS TRIAL
following a 27 day trial, the Buxar district and sessions court, India...
- JULY 31, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER
a Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, sentenced four people to death, including two brothers, for the murder of fellow-villager Jarina Khatun, 18, killed after being gang raped on April 4, 1999.
- JULY 31, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. COURT SENTENCES ANOTHER DEFENDANT TO DEATH FOR AHVAZ BOMBINGS
the acting head of Khuzestan Province's Justice Department announced that Hamzeh Savari...
- JULY 31, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FAMILY OF SLAIN CAB DRIVER DEMAND BRITON’S EXECUTION
the family of a slain Pakistani taxi driver demanded that Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man convicted of killing him...
- JULY 31, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Ali...
a man, identified only as Ali...
JULY 31, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ. HANGING WILL BE SADDAM'S DEATH PENALTY IF CONVICTED – PROSECUTOR
if the death penalty against Hussein was executed, it would be hanging until death and not by a shooting squad, said Jaafar Al-Mosawi, chief prosecutor of the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. "It is a civil court not a military one," said
JULY 31, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. BANKER SENTENCED TO DEATH
Wen Mengjie, an official from the Agricultural Bank of China, was sentenced to death for corruption involving 15 million yuan ($1.87-million).
- JULY 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HUNGER STRIKE PLANNED AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE
the Vadhasiksha Virudha Samithi, a forum campaigning against capital punishment...
JULY 29, 2006MoldovaDEATH PENALTYMOLDOVA. MOLDOVA RATIFIES CONVENTIONS OUTLAWING DEATH PENALTY
Moldova assumed an international obligation not to apply the death penalty.
JULY 29, 2006ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF 4
Anuchai Noithai, a man convicted of shooting four people dead, wounding three others and damaging seven vehicles after an argument with his ex-wife in 2005, was sentenced to death by the Saraburi Court, Thailand.