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- JUNE 12, 2006NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RITUAL KILLING
a Mgbidi High Court, Nigeria, sentenced Obinna Onyema and Benjamin Arizo to death for killing one Damian Okorocha for ritual purposes, on October 8, 2002 at Ubaha Etiti Omuma, Oru.
- JUNE 12, 2006UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA. TWO PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE
it was reported that the previous week, the High Court in Mbale, Uganda, sentenced two men to death after they were found guilty of committing robbery with violence.
JUNE 12, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. THREE MEN EXECUTED IN WESTERN IRAN
three men were hanged in city of Qazvin, west of Tehran.
JUNE 12, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. MINOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a 17 year old boy was sentenced to death in Iran for murder, according to the daily ‘Etemad’.
JUNE 12, 2006United StatesDEATH PENALTYUNITED STATES. COURT ALLOWS INMATE APPEAL ON LETHAL INJECTION
US Supreme Court ruled that a death row inmate can bring a challenge under a federal civil rights law to the method of execution that uses a lethal three-chemical cocktail.
JUNE 12, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
JUNE 11, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUNITED ARAB EMIRATES. COURT CONDEMNS ALLEGED ADULTERER TO DEATH BY STONING
an Islamic court in the United Arab Emirates condemned a man to death by stoning and his female lover to one year in jail and 100 lashes.
- JUNE 9, 2006OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
OKLAHOMA. LAW ALLOWS EXECUTION OF REPEAT CHILD MOLESTERS
Oklahoma became the fifth state to allow the death penalty for certain sex crimes although legal scholars questioned the constitutionality of the new state law.
- JUNE 9, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. WOMAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING NIECE
a court in China’s Yunnan Province executed a woman who drowned her niece.
- JUNE 9, 2006JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. PROSECUTORS DEMAND DEATH PENALTY FOR PERUVIAN MURDERER
Japanese prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Jose Manuel Torres Yagi, a Peruvian charged with killing a seven-year-old girl.
- JUNE 9, 2006JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD FOR MEN WHO BURNED SISTERS TO DEATH IN METAL DRUMS
Japan’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for two men convicted of stuffing two sisters into metal drums, pouring gasoline over them and burning them to death.
- JUNE 9, 2006MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA. DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR MURDER OF ACCOUNTANT
Abdullah Lee’s death sentence for murdering an accountant in 2000 was upheld by the Malaysian Federal Court which unanimously dismissed Lee's appeal against the Appeal Court’s decision to send him to the gallows for killing 52-year-old Lee Good Yew.