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- SEPTEMBER 21, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Farzad Jalali, a convicted rapist, was executed by...
Farzad Jalali, a convicted rapist, was executed by hanging in the south-western Iranian town of Khoramabad, the Kayhan newspaper reported
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Justice Malimath Committee on Reforms of Criminal...
The Justice Malimath Committee on Reforms of Criminal Justice System made a stand against application of the death penalty for rapists and instead recommended life imprisonment for offenders
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Shamsul Alam was sentenced to death by an Additional...
Shamsul Alam was sentenced to death by an Additional District and Sessions Judge Court in Bangladesh for killing his wife
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Jurors voted 12-0 to recommend Eric Simmons be executed...
Jurors voted 12-0 to recommend Eric Simmons be executed for the 1st-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual battery of Debbie Tressler on Dec
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran Kim Tuyen, who was convicted of drug trafficking,...
Tran Kim Tuyen, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam's Tay Ninh province
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
Joseph Mokhobo, Douglas Simon and Gouwane Lele Tsae...
Joseph Mokhobo, Douglas Simon and Gouwane Lele Tsae were hanged at the Gaborone central Prison, Botswana
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Sri Lanka's Interior Minister John Amaratunga assured...
Sri Lanka's Interior Minister John Amaratunga assured a Hands Off Cain delegation visiting the country that the Sri Lankan government was not contemplating a swift return to the death penalty despite calls for its re-introduction to combat a rising crime
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
September 17-19, 2003: an HOC delegation made up of...
September 17-19, 2003: an HOC delegation made up of Italian MP Enrico Buemi, MEP Marco Cappato, Regional Counsellor for Lombardy (Italy) Alessandro Litta Modignani and HOC Board Member Anna Zammit, visited Sri Lanka to lobby for support of a worldwide mor
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
The debate on the resumption of executions seemed to...
The debate on the resumption of executions seemed to have died down somewhat after the Sri Lanka National Human Rights Commission wrote to the government pointing out that such a move would be in breach of the country's international obligations according
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court in Abuja, Nigeria, upheld a death...
The Supreme Court in Abuja, Nigeria, upheld a death sentence passed on Andrew Nwachukwu in November 1999
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Charnchao Chaiyanukij, human rights activist and director-general...
Charnchao Chaiyanukij, human rights activist and director-general of the Justice Ministry's Rights and Liberty Protection Department was reported as saying that the death penalty in Thailand was a "sensitive and controversial issue"
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
1 of 2 death penalties against Vernon Brown was overturned...
1 of 2 death penalties against Vernon Brown was overturned by a federal appeals court whose members said a supportive letter from his stepbrother was wrongly kept from jurors