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- MAY 18, 2005DEATH PENALTY
DRC. PRISONERS DIE FROM MALNUTRITION AWAITING TRIAL COUNTRY, UN
prisoners awaiting trial are dying from lack of food, overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the UN mission to the central African country said.
- MAY 18, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN WHO RAPED AND KILLED GIRL SENTENCED TO DEATH
a court in Gujarat, India, sentenced Ramesh Rathod to death for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1999.
- MAY 18, 2005MissouriDEATH PENALTY
Vernon Brown died by injection at the Eastern Reception Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre
Vernon Brown died by injection at the Eastern Reception Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre
- MAY 18, 2005TexasDEATH PENALTY
Bryan Wolfe was executed in Huntsville
Bryan Wolfe was executed in Huntsville
- MAY 18, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified as Hossein Gholi, was sentenced to death in Tehran
a man, identified as Hossein Gholi, was sentenced to death in Tehran
- MAY 17, 2005DEATH PENALTY
CUBA. TWO POLISH MEMBERS OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BARRED FROM ENTERING COUNTRY TO PARTICIPATE IN DISSIDENT ASSEMBLY
two Polish members of the European Parliament who planned to attend a dissident meeting in Cuba were denied entry by the island's Communist authorities and sent back to Europe.
- MAY 17, 2005Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
RDC. EU WELCOMES THE ELIMINATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY FROM THE CONSTITUTION
the elimination of all references to the death penalty in the constitutional project approved by the DRC’s National Assembly on May 13 showed the country’s will to create the foundations for a democratic regime with the full respect of human rights, decla
- MAY 17, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a court in Manikganj, Bangladesh, sentenced Kitab Ali to death for murder.
- MAY 17, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 14 WITH POISONOUS ALCOHOL
fifteen people were convicted by a local court in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, for producing and selling fake liquor that left 14 people dead.
- MAY 17, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. AIMB DEMANDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR US SOLDIERS WHO INSULTED KORAN
the All India Minority Board (AIMB) asked the US President George W Bush to award capital punishment to those soldiers who had insulted the holy Koran and seek public apology for their ''shameful acts''.
- MAY 17, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. GOVERNMENT VOWS TO EXECUTE REBELS
mortars, bombs and drive-by gunmen killed at least 24 Iraqis as the new government vowed to punish the killers of at least 50 other people found slain in the last 48 hours, saying insurgents were trying to start open warfare between Shi'ites and Sunnis.
- MAY 17, 2005PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY -- SANTIAGO
“Why not commute all death sentences?” was the suggestion of Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago, who urged Philippine’s President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to follow the example of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who signed a decree in 1999 commuting