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DECEMBER 18, 2005JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN. ZARQAWI GETS THIRD DEATH SENTENCE IN ABSENTIA
Jordan's state security court handed al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his third death sentence in absentia for planning a failed suicide attack at the border post with Iraq.
- DECEMBER 17, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. GUIZHOU ROAD CHIEF EXECUTED FOR BRIBERY
Lu Wanli, the former head of the Communications Department of Southwest China's Guizhou Province, was executed for taking huge bribes, according to the Supreme People's Court.
- DECEMBER 16, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FORMER SENIOR OFFICIAL GETS DEATH FOR GRAFT
Han Guizhi, the former head of the top advisory body of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting 7.02 million yuan (US$ 875,000) in bribes.
- DECEMBER 16, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOUBLE MURDER
the Shakargarh Additional District & Session Court, Pakistan, sentenced Abdul Shakoor alias Shoka to death on two counts with a fine of Rs. 200,000 for killing Aslam and Allah Rakha of Bara Bhai-Shakargarh village over an argument in 2003.
- DECEMBER 16, 2005North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS NORTH KOREA RESOLUTION
the UN General Assembly officially adopted a resolution criticizing human rights abuses in North Korea, with 88 votes for, 21 against and 60 abstentions.
DECEMBER 16, 2005New JerseyDEATH PENALTYNEW JERSEY, USA. SENATE APPROVES COMMISSION TO STUDY DEATH PENALTY
though no New Jersey prisoner has been executed in more than 40 years and the state's death penalty remains on a court-ordered moratorium on technical grounds, the state Senate voted on December 15 to study the issue and delay any execution until 20
- DECEMBER 15, 2005JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. CALL FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY DUE TO MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
a miscarriage of the Jordanian justice system that led to the execution of a man wrongly convicted of murder in 2000 had become a new reason to abolish the death penalty in the Kingdom, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
- DECEMBER 15, 2005VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN VIETNAM FOR HEROIN SMUGGLING
three members of a drug smuggling ring were sentenced to death in Vietnam for smuggling heroin and opium into Vietnam from Laos, said Nguyen Van Huy, an officer from the Nghe An provincial people's court.
- DECEMBER 15, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FSC DISMISSES PETITION CHALLENGING DEATH SENTENCE IN RAPE CASES
a full bench of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) in Pakistan dismissed a Shariat petition stating that death sentence awarded in rape cases were contrary to the injunctions of the Holy Quran and the Hadith and challenging the trial of rapists in Anti-Terro
- DECEMBER 15, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. DOG TRAINER HANDED DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING 5 PEOPLE WITH MUSCLE RELAXANTS
Yoshinori Ueda, a man convicted of killing five people in 1992 and 1993 using muscle relaxants, was set to be executed after Japan’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal. Ueda, 51, had been sentenced to death after being convicted of murder and abandoning th
- DECEMBER 14, 2005MississippiDEATH PENALTY
MISSISSIPPI, USA. JOHN NIXON, 77, EXECUTED
John B. Nixon Sr., a 77-year-old convicted hitman, was executed becoming the oldest person in the nation put to death since capital punishment resumed in the US in 1977.
- DECEMBER 14, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. EX-SECURITIES CEO GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR GRAFT
Yang Yanming, formerly general manager of a Beijing trading business department with China Yinhe Securities Co. Ltd., was sentenced to death for graft and embezzling public funds.