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- APRIL 21, 2004United StatesDEATH PENALTY
A House panel gave preliminary approval to a bill backed...
A House panel gave preliminary approval to a bill backed by President Bush to make terrorists crimes that result in death punishable by death or life in prison
- APRIL 20, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Seif bin Olayan bin Mohammad al-Zughaibi, a Saudi national,...
Seif bin Olayan bin Mohammad al-Zughaibi, a Saudi national, was executed in Riyadh for shooting Abdullah bin Marzouq al-Harbi after a row which broke out as they drove in the capital
- APRIL 20, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Sharia Appeal Court in the central Nigerian city...
The Sharia Appeal Court in the central Nigerian city of Minna, postponed the appeal of a young couple of former lovers who were sentenced to be stoned to death after a new defence lawyer moved to take over the case
- APRIL 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling...
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 20, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling...
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran Van Chung, an unemployed man, was sentenced to...
Tran Van Chung, an unemployed man, was sentenced to death in Vietnam for killing a woman after she spurned his amorous advances
- APRIL 20, 2004SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan...
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan within days to probe alleged atrocities by government-backed militia in the western Darfur region after initially denying the group entry, a UN spokesman said
- APRIL 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Vietnam's Dong Nai province sentenced Phan...
A court in Vietnam's Dong Nai province sentenced Phan Thanh Nhan, 21, to death after he was convicted of killing his pregnant lover in October 2003
- APRIL 20, 2004AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan carried out its first execution since the...
Afghanistan carried out its first execution since the fall of the Taliban, putting a bullet to the head of Abdullah Shah, a former military commander convicted of more than 20 murders
- APRIL 20, 2004United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan...
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan within days to probe alleged atrocities by government-backed militia in the western Darfur region after initially denying the group entry, a UN spokesman said
- APRIL 19, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The US federal government must intervene with the states...
The US federal government must intervene with the states to ensure a review of the cases of foreigners - particularly Mexicans - sitting on death row, The New York Times said in an editorial
- APRIL 19, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan Police chief, Major General Katumba Wamala...
Ugandan Police chief, Major General Katumba Wamala urged for tightening of the law on rape and defilement