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- OCTOBER 10, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Lahu Dhekane was sentenced to death by an Additional...
Lahu Dhekane was sentenced to death by an Additional and Sessions Court in Pune, India, for the 4 July 2003 abduction, and eventual murder, of Amit Sonawane, 13, from Nira
- OCTOBER 10, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged Thailand to abolish the...
Amnesty International urged Thailand to abolish the death penalty and said its October 19, 2003 switch to execution by lethal injection instead of firing squad did not change the "inhumanity" of the penalty
- OCTOBER 10, 2003NorwayDEATH PENALTY
The World Day against the Death Penalty is being arranged...
The World Day against the Death Penalty is being arranged for the first time on 10 October 2003 on the initiative of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, an international coalition of human rights organisations
- OCTOBER 10, 2003AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
On the occasion of the International Day Against Death...
On the occasion of the International Day Against Death Penalty, the Albanian Committee of Helsinki (KSHH) reiterated that capital punishment was not and could not be a determinative factor in crime prevention and appealed to public opinion to say "Stop" t
- OCTOBER 10, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
School teacher Wang Furong was sentenced to death for...
School teacher Wang Furong was sentenced to death for raping five young pupils and molesting other children at a rural school in northern China's Shaanxi province
- OCTOBER 10, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged people around the world...
Amnesty International urged people around the world to pressure countries to abolish the death penalty
- OCTOBER 9, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court sentenced Mohammad Ali Firouzi, a...
An Iranian court sentenced Mohammad Ali Firouzi, a 34 year old man convicted of serial raping children, to eight death sentences and 173 lashes, the judge in charge of the case said
- OCTOBER 9, 2003BrazilDEATH PENALTY
A Brazilian man shot dead after testifying before a...
A Brazilian man shot dead after testifying before a UN envoy on police-sanctioned death squads in Brazil, became the second such witness killed in two weeks, police said
- OCTOBER 8, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
See under 'The Death Penalty For Violent Crimes' of...
See under 'The Death Penalty For Violent Crimes' of the same date
- OCTOBER 8, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Zinat al-Sadat, a 34 year old nurse convicted of murder,...
Zinat al-Sadat, a 34 year old nurse convicted of murder, was executed by hanging in a Tehran prison, the Etemad newspaper reported
- OCTOBER 8, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of...
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of murdering a friend in January 2001 over a loan reimbursement, were executed at dawn at the Swaqa prison south of Amman, Jordan
- OCTOBER 8, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of...
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of murdering a friend in January 2001 over a loan reimbursement, were executed at dawn at the Swaqa prison south of Amman, Jordan