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- FEBRUARY 28, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. RIGHTS WATCH CONDEMNS RISE IN EXECUTIONS
a US-based human rights monitor voiced "grave concern" over a spike in the number of executions in Iran since the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.
- FEBRUARY 28, 2006YemenDEATH PENALTY
in at least one case said Amnesty International...
in at least one case said Amnesty International...
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. 8,000 EXECUTIONS EVERY YEAR, SCHOLAR AT THE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
the number of executions in China is a state secret, but Liu Renwen, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said he agreed with estimates in academic circles that the figure was likely to be about 8,000 a year.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN. MAN EXECUTED FOR US MISSIONARY KILLINGS
Abed Abdulrazzak Kamel, convicted of killing three US Christian missionaries in southern Yemen in 2002, was executed by firing squad. Kamel shot dead a surgeon and two of her colleagues at a Baptist mission hospital in the town of Jibla.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006MississippiDEATH PENALTY
Eric Moffett has been sentenced to death...
Eric Moffett has been sentenced to death for the 1994 rape and murder of his girlfriends 5 year old daughter.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
Stephen Barbee, 38, was sentenced to death
Stephen Barbee, 38, was sentenced to death this afternoon for the Feb. 19, 2005 killing of Lisa Underwood and her 7-year-old son, Jayden.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006LaosDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. LAOS MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the Quang Ninh provincial first instance court, Vietnam, sentenced to death Xom Phon, a 30-year-old Laotian, for trafficking over 70 cakes of heroin and 4,000 tablets of Methamphetamine from Lao to northern Quang Ninh province late in 2005.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
in Chicago, a jury has recommended the death penalty for accused serial killer Paul Runge.
in Chicago, a jury has recommended the death penalty for accused serial killer Paul Runge.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. PROVINCE TAPS THIEVES WITH EXECUTION
Courts in China's southern province of Guangdong will introduce harsher penalties, including death, to deter motorcycle-riding purse snatchers who sometimes chop off the hands of victims who resist, the Yangcheng Evening News said.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA. PRISON OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF INMATE
Azhar Che Wil, an officer of Penor Prison, was sentenced to death by the High Court in Kauntan, Malaysia, for the murder of a 19-year-old detainee.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006MarylandDEATH PENALTY
in Greenbelt, Judge Peter Messitte accepted the NOVEMBER 10...
in Greenbelt, Judge Peter Messitte accepted the NOVEMBER 10, 2005 (see) jury's recommendation for capital punishment for 23-year-old Kenneth Jamal Lighty.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA. NFA WOMEN DEMAND RESUMPTION OF DEATH PENALTY
the women's section of the National Front Alliance demanded the reintroduction of the death penalty for murder while condemning what it called the "brutal execution'' of a woman taxi driver, Seeraji Singh. In a press release, the women noted that there ha