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FEBRUARY 20, 2006Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTYTURKEY. PROTOCOL NO. 13 RATIFIED
Turkey ratifies Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances.
- FEBRUARY 19, 2006AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. AFP UNDER FIRE OVER VIETNAM DRUG ARREST
Australian Federal Police were facing fresh controversy over their policy of giving information to foreign police in cases that could end in the death penalty.
FEBRUARY 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. 22-YEAR-OLD MAN HANGED IN PRISON
a young man from the town of Ardebil, north-western Iran, was hanged in prison.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ATTACK ON VILLAGERS
four men were sentenced to death in China for organising and carrying out an attack in June 2005 that killed six villagers protesting about the seizure of their land for a power plant.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2006VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
VENEZUELA. GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATES 744 EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS
Venezuela's Attorney General's Office said that it was investigating 744 cases of extrajudicial executions by members of the regional police in the eastern state of Bolivar.
FEBRUARY 18, 2006AustraliaDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM. PRESIDENT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF TWO AUSTRALIANS
Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong commuted the death sentences imposed on two convicted Australian heroin traffickers to life imprisonment, Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
FEBRUARY 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. EXECUTION OF MINORS TO CONTINUE
a judge at Tehran’s Appellate Court announced that the Islamic Republic would continue to issue death verdicts for juvenile delinquents “without considering other available options”.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2006DEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN EXECUTED IN SOUTHERN CITY
two men accused of murder were hanged in the southern city of Shiraz, the state-run news agency ISNA reported.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN HANGED IN IRAN
two men convicted of rape and kidnapping were hanged in southwestern and southern Iran.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2006CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to grant clemency to a rapist-murderer scheduled to die Tuesday
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to grant clemency to a rapist-murderer scheduled to die Tuesday at San Quentin State Prison for murdering a girl in 1981.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2006North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Jeremy Dushane Murrell, 26, was sentenced to death
Jeremy Dushane Murrell, 26, was sentenced to death in Forsyth Superior Court for killing Lawrence Matthew Harding, 19.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SUPREME COURT STAYS DEATH SENTENCE OF SWAMI SHRADHANANDA
India’s Supreme Court stayed the death sentence of Swami Shradhananda, convicted of murdering his wife Begum Shakereh Namazi, a member of the royal family of Mysore.