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- OCTOBER 17, 2005BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
UNITED STATES. BUSH URGES LIBYA TO FREE CONDEMNED BULGARIAN NURSES
President George W. Bush urged Libya to free five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death on charges of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus.
- OCTOBER 17, 2005LibyaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. TRIPOLI REJECTS US DEMAND TO FREE BULGARIAN NURSES
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgam rejected a call by US President George W. Bush for Tripoli to spare the lives of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in May 2004.
- OCTOBER 17, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. DEATH ROW MILITANTS FOR BALI BOMBS GET CHANCE FOR PARDON
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Imam Samudra on death row for their role in the 2002 Bali bombings would be given one more chance to request a pardon, officials told activists who held a protest to demand immediate executions for the convicts.
- OCTOBER 17, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. TOP COURT UPHOLDS DEATH FOR MURDER OF 2
the Supreme Court of Japan upheld a lower court's death sentence on Shinji Mutsuda, a 35-year-old man, for murdering two people in a robbery case in 1995.
OCTOBER 17, 2005TennesseeDEATH PENALTYTENNESSEE, USA. SUPREME COURT REJECTS CLAIM ON LETHAL SHOT
the Tennessee Supreme Court unanimously rejected claims that the three-drug combination used to execute killers can cause extreme pain in violation on the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
OCTOBER 17, 2005IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. WOMAN SENTENCED TO EXECUTION
an Iranian woman was sentenced to execution in the Iranian capital Tehran.
- OCTOBER 16, 2005AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. PERTH ARCHBISHOP CONDEMNS NEW TALK OF DEATH PENALTY
Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth criticised moves to reintroduce the death penalty for serious offenders in Western Australia.
- OCTOBER 16, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH ROW MERCY PLEAS: PRESIDENT KALAM IN FAVOUR OF PARDON TO MOST
in a move without any precedent, President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam advised the Government to consider a pardon for a majority of an estimated 50 individuals on death row whose mercy petitions were pending before him.
OCTOBER 16, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ. SADDAM'S JAILED NUMBER TWO AZIZ TO TESTIFY AGAINST OLD BOSS: REPORT
Britain’s Sunday Telegraph reported that Iraq's former number two Tareq Aziz would testify against his old boss Saddam Hussein at the toppled dictator's trial for war crimes in return for his freedom.
- OCTOBER 15, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. GUJARAT COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM
a fast track sessions court in Bhuj, India, sentenced to death Shahnawaz Abdul Gafur, a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, after finding him guilty of waging war against the nation.
- OCTOBER 15, 2005FloridaDEATH PENALTY
a Jacksonville jury recommended 2 death sentences and life imprisonment against Chip Carter
a Jacksonville jury recommended 2 death sentences and life imprisonment against Chip Carter, convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, her new boyfriend and her 16-year-old daughter in July 2002.
- OCTOBER 15, 2005AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. PLEA TO PM ON THE NINE
Australian lawyers for the Bali Nine approached the Howard Government, seeking diplomatic intervention to have the death penalty removed as a possible sentence for the alleged heroin-smugglers.