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- JUNE 12, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN. A YEMENI NATIONAL AND TWO PAKISTANIS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the state security court in Sanaa, Yemen, sentenced two Pakistanis and a Yemeni to death after convicting them of drug trafficking.
JUNE 12, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYPALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. FOUR MEN CONVICTED OF MURDER EXECUTED
the Palestinian Authority executed four convicted murderers, officials said, defying international calls to halt capital punishment as part of reforms considered key to securing future Palestinian statehood.
JUNE 12, 2005IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. CONVICTED SERIAL KILLER HANGED PUBLICLY
Yaghoub Ali Mirshekari, an Iranian man convicted of killing 10 truck drivers to steal their vehicles, was hanged in public in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
JUNE 11, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT. DEATH PENALTY DEMANDED FOR 34 MILITANTS
Kuwait’s public prosecutor demanded the death penalty for 34 of 37 militants suspected of links to Al Qaeda and deadly clashes with police in January 2005.
- JUNE 10, 2005VietnamDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. GOVERNMENT TO PLEAD FOR DRUG SMUGGLER FACING FIRING SQUAD IN VIETNAM
the Australian federal government said it would plead for the life of Mai Cong Thanh, an Australian sentenced to death in Vietnam for conspiring to smuggle heroin.
- JUNE 10, 2005NepalDEATH PENALTY
NEPAL. RIGHTS ACTIVISTS APPEAL FOR LIVES OF FIVE IN INDONESIA
human rights activists said the government must take immediate steps to stop the death sentence of five Nepalese nationals charged with drug trafficking in Indonesia.
- JUNE 10, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDERING COMPATRIOT
Melhem bin Fahd bin Amer al-Dosari, a Saudi convicted of murder, was beheaded by sword near the capital Riyadh, the interior ministry said
- JUNE 10, 2005Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. PITMAN RECEIVES STAY OF EXECUTION
the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago granted convicted murderer Lester Pitman a stay of execution following the production of a notice of appeal filed by his lawyers on April 22 which the State said it had never received.
- JUNE 10, 2005LiberiaDEATH PENALTY
LIBERIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Nyonoh Diah was sentenced to death after a 12-man jury unanimously convicted him of murder
JUNE 10, 2005UgandaDEATH PENALTYUGANDA. COURT STRIKES DOWN MANDATORY DEATH SENTENCES
Uganda's constitutional court struck down the imposition of mandatory death sentences but rejected an appeal by death-row inmates to completely outlaw capital punishment.
JUNE 10, 2005IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. MAN SENTENCED TO HAVE EYES GOUGED OUT FOR TEENAGE CRIME
Iran’s State Supreme Court has upheld a sentence for a young man’s eyes to be gouged out and sprayed with acid, for blinding another man at the age of 16 some 12 years ago.
- JUNE 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FAMILY OF FIVE
the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, China, handed a death sentence to Yang Hui, a man convicted of killing a family of five in Pudong.