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APRIL 1, 2006BotswanaDEATH PENALTYBOTSWANA. MAN SECRETLY PUT TO DEATH IN APRIL 2006
Modisane Ping was executed in secret in Botswana. Ping was found guilty of killing his girlfriend and her six-year-old son.
- MARCH 31, 2006FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Circuit Judge William Blackwell sentenced Eaglin this morning at the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda.
Circuit Judge William Blackwell sentenced Eaglin at the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda.
- MARCH 31, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN GETS DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING 3-YR-OLD DAUGHTER
a New Delhi court sentenced to death 26-year-old Sheikh Noor Hussain for raping and killing his three-year-old daughter. Additional sessions judge S.K. Kaushik awarded capital punishment to Hussain for murder and also read out a life sentence, the maximum
- MARCH 31, 2006TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN. GOVERNMENT TO KEEP CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
TAIWAN. GOVERNMENT TO KEEP CAPITAL PUNISHMENT March 31, 2006: the government of Taiwan has no plans to abolish capital punishment but will further step up measures to meet high public expectations for better public order, Premier Su Tseng- chang said.
- MARCH 31, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SUPREME COURT STAYS DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED TO VARANASI GUIDE
India’s Supreme Court stayed a death sentence awarded to a guide for killing a female New Zealand tourist at Varanasi in 1997.
MARCH 31, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. PIPELINE OIL THIEVES FACE DEATH PENALTY
Chinese police vowed to clamp down on pipeline oil theft, even threatening to impose the death penalty. According to police oil theft cost the industry more than 1bn yuan ($124.6m, £71.8m) and led to 2,877 arrests.
MARCH 31, 2006NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STEALING BICYCLE
a 35-year-old man, Umaru Auta, was sentenced to death by hanging for stealing a bicycle. Auta had been arrested by the police in 1999 in a village near Toro, in Nigeria’s Bauchi State, and arraigned on a three-count charge of robbery, assault and unlawful
- MARCH 30, 2006AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
LEBANON. DEATH PENALTY DROPPED AGAINST PLO HEAD
a Lebanese military court dropped a death penalty against the head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the country.
- MARCH 30, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY A COURT IN DHAKA FOR MURDER
three people were sentenced to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for raping and murdering a woman. The court also fined the three convicts - Nazrul Islam, 29, Mozibor Rahman, 23 and Habibur Rahman (absconding) - Tk 10,000 each.
- MARCH 30, 2006RwandaDEATH PENALTY
RWANDA. DEATH PENALTY COULD BE WAIVED - KAGAME
the Rwandan government will consider lifting capital punishment on genocide suspects whose extradition is subject to the condition that they will not face the death penalty, President Paul Kagame said.
- MARCH 30, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICTION OF LJ ACTIVISTS IN SECTARIAN KILLING CASE SET ASIDE
the Sindh High Court (SHC), Pakistan, set aside the convictions to four activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group after acquitting them of charges of sectarian killing. Mohammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori, Attaullah, Mohammad Azam and Malik Tassaduq H
MARCH 30, 2006MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA. FORMER SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Sita Raman, a 32 year old former soldier, was sentenced to death for murdering his friend by stabbing him twice in the neck at Nilai, near Bernama, Malaysia.