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- MARCH 21, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER, SORCERY
Saudi national Zayed bin Ali bin Saleh al-Thabiti al-Maliki was executed for murdering a compatriot and having illicit sex with women, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. Al-Maliki was executed in Taif, a city in the Western part of the country.
- MARCH 21, 2005United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UK. NO PARDON FOR RUTH ELLIS
documents revealed that 50 years after her death, convicted killer Ruth Ellis had been secretly denied a pardon by the British Government.
- MARCH 21, 2005FranceDEATH PENALTY
USA. GOVERNMENT URGES JUDGE TO SET DATE FOR MOUSSAOUI TRIAL
the US government asked a federal judge to set an October start date for the much-delayed trial of accused September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
- MARCH 21, 2005United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA. CATHOLIC BISHOPS CAMPAIGN AGAINST DEATH PENALTY
US Catholic bishops launched a campaign against the death penalty and presented new data suggesting support for capital punishment among American Catholics had fallen sharply in recent years to below 50 percent. Washington Archbishop Theodore McCarrick to
- MARCH 20, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Muhibur Rahman, Billal Ahmed and Abdul Latif were sentenced to death by a court in Sylhet, Bangladesh, for killing a day-labourer in the Jaintapur district.
- MARCH 20, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. WOMAN EXECUTED FOR TRIPLE MURDERS
an Indonesian woman, 49-year-old Astini, was executed in the East Java capital of Surabaya after spending eight years in jail for a series of murders in which three women were killed and mutilated
- MARCH 20, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. STATE EXECUTES WITH ‘DEATH VANS’
the death van is an inconspicuous blue-and-white police vehicle that parks near the courtroom when its services are required by the Chinese judicial system. Inside it is fitted with a couch that can be raised or lowered like an operating table, set in the
- MARCH 19, 2005BrazilDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT SEEKING CLEMENCY FOR DRUG SMUGGLER
Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was to make a special appeal to Indonesia for clemency for Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, a Brazilian national condemned to death for drug smuggling.
- MARCH 18, 2005BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. EU BACKS CAMPAIGN TO FREE BULGARIAN NURSES CONDEMNED TO DEATH
a European Union official backed Bulgaria’s attempts to secure the release of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for the infection of hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
- MARCH 18, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FOUR GANG-RAPE SUSPECTS REARRESTED
Pakistani authorities acting on the orders of the president and prime minister rearrested four men involved in a high-profile gang-rape case after an appeal by the alleged victim, Mukhtiar Mai.
- MARCH 18, 2005South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
in a Richland County courtroom, Circuit Judge G. Thomas Cooper sentenced...
in a Richland County courtroom, Circuit Judge G. Thomas Cooper sentenced the 25-year-old Quincy Allen to death for the 2002 slayings of Dale Evonne Hall and Jedediah Harr.
- MARCH 18, 2005FloridaDEATH PENALTY
in Vero Beach, Judge Robert Hawley has vacated the death sentence...
in Vero Beach, Judge Robert Hawley has vacated the death sentence Rodney Lowe received 14 years ago after he was convicted of the 1st-degree murder of a clerk at a convenience store.