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- DECEMBER 7, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. FTC AWARDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO MAN IN MURDER CASE
a Fast Track Court in Davangere in India’s Karnataka state, sentenced to death Prakash Yadhav, 35, on charges relating to the murder of a two-year-old girl.
- DECEMBER 7, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDER AND IMPOSES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
the Supreme Court of Pakistan set aside a verdict of the Peshawar High Court transforming the sentence of life imprisonment handed to Khurram for murder into the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 7, 2005South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH KOREA. SPY AGENCY UNEARTHS MOST SHAMEFUL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
South Korea's spy agency said that eight innocent men were tortured and sent to their deaths in 1975 by the military government of late dictator Park Chung-Hee in a case that ranked as the nation's worst miscarriage of justice.
- DECEMBER 7, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
two young men were publicly hanged near the central city of Arak
two young men were publicly hanged near the central city of Arak
- DECEMBER 7, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
an Iranian man accused of fatally shooting a member of Iran’s paramilitary State Security Forces...
an Iranian man accused of fatally shooting a member of Iran’s paramilitary State Security Forces...
- DECEMBER 6, 2005DEATH PENALTY
IRAN TO HANG AFGHAN YOUTH FOR CRIME COMMITTED AS MINOR
a young Afghan man is set to be executed on December 10 for a crime he committed as a minor, a semi-official daily reported.
- DECEMBER 6, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. LAWMAKERS PROPOSE ALTERNATIVE TO DEATH PENALTY
Japanese lawmakers opposed to the death penalty said they would propose mandatory life in prison for capital cases in a bid to dent overwhelming public support for capital punishment.
- DECEMBER 6, 2005MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA. GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLANS TO REPLACE DEATH SENTENCE BY HANGING
it was reported that the government of Malaysia had no plans to replace the death penalty by hanging with other methods of executions such as using the electric chair or lethal injection even though studies on other options had been undertaken.
- DECEMBER 6, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. CONDEMNED PRISONER APPEALS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Peter Kamau Ndung'u, a prisoner condemned to death, appealed to the Kenyan government to abolish the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 5, 2005ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN ENTRUSTS PRESIDENT CIAMPI WITH STANLEY ‘TOOKIE’ WILLAIMS APPEAL
Secretary of Hands Off Cain Sergio D’Elia delivered to Italy’s President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi the appeal signed by Italy’s Parliamentarians and Regional Presidents to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for the suspension of the scheduled execution
- DECEMBER 5, 2005MarylandDEATH PENALTY
MARYLAND, USA. WESLEY BAKER EXECUTED FOR KILLING TEACHER'S AIDE
convicted murderer Wesley Eugene Baker was executed in Maryland for fatally shooting a teacher's aide in front of two of her grandchildren. Baker, 47, died by lethal injection at 9:18 pm EST (0218 GMT) at the Maryland Diagnostic and Classification Center
- DECEMBER 5, 2005MississippiDEATH PENALTY
in Yazoo City, a jury decided that Earnest Lee Hargon should get the death penalty.
in Yazoo City, a jury decided that Earnest Lee Hargon should get the death penalty.