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JUNE 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. DEATH PENALTY FOR SUNNI MILITANT
Mohammad Aslam, also known as Muawia, was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan after being found guilty of killing six Shia Muslims during an attack in 1995. He had pleaded not guilty.
JUNE 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Mohammad Khan was hanged in Faisalabad District Jail, Pakistan, in the morning hours.
- JUNE 13, 2006JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR MAN WHO KILLED 2 IN OSAKA WHILE ON PAROLE
Japan’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Susumu Nakayama, a man who stabbed two people to death in Osaka Prefecture in 1998, seven years after he was released on parole while serving a life imprisonment sentence imposed for a separate murder an
- JUNE 13, 2006MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA. COURT DISMISSES DEATH PENALTY APPEAL OF DECEASED MAN
the Malaysian Federal Court dismissed the appeal of businessman Alex Wong Teck Choy against his death sentence for murder. During the hearing, counsel Datuk Muhammad Shafee Abdullah informed the court that his client had died on May 8.
- JUNE 13, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE TO BE HANGED WITHIN NEXT THREE DAYS
it was reported that three death row convicts were scheduled to be hanged in the following three days
- JUNE 13, 2006TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN. NO VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said that Taiwan had not violated any human rights principles in its handling of capital punishment cases or in its treatment of death-row inmates, but it promised to refer to other countries' measures to refine the existing
JUNE 13, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. FIVE HANGED FOR RAPE AND KIDNAPPING
five Iranian men convicted of kidnapping and rape were hanged in the southern cities of Kerman and Zahedan.
- JUNE 12, 2006ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN: MYTH SURROUNDING HUMANENESS OF LETHAL INJECTION CRACKING, SERGIO D’ELIA
following the US Supreme Court’s decision to allow inmates to challenge lethal injection, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, Sergio D’Elia, declared: “Once again, following the abolition of the death penalty for those with mental retardation, for minors and th
- JUNE 12, 2006AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
AZERBAIJAN. PRISONERS ON DEATH ON HUNGER STRIKE
109 prisoners whose verdict was replaced by life imprisonment after abolishment of capital punishment launched hunger strike.
- JUNE 12, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE WOMEN HANGED
three women were reported to have been hanged in Qazvin, west of Tehran.
- JUNE 12, 2006PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. CATHOLIC PRIESTS SUPPORT DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION
the Butuan Diocesan Council, the Philippines, stated its support for the law abolishing the death penalty. Fr. Joecilo Amalla of the Butuan Diocesan Council said that as a Christian country, "we should not inflict death penalty."
- JUNE 12, 2006PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. SC INSISTS ECHEGARAY EXECUTION WAS CORRECT
the Philippines Supreme Court stood firm on its 1996 ruling that sent convicted rapist Leo Echegaray to his death, in light of a brewing storm over a public statement by Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban that the court may have committed an irreversible “j