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- APRIL 11, 2003CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
According to a CVVM agency poll almost two-thirds of...
According to a CVVM agency poll almost two-thirds of Czechs believe that the Czech Republic should reinstate the death penalty and one-third believe that all murderers should receive it
- APRIL 11, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch warned that Russian soldiers were...
Human Rights Watch warned that Russian soldiers were carrying out human rights abuses in Chechnya despite a controversial referendum in March that Moscow said would bring peace to breakaway republic
- APRIL 11, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
International human rights organisations welcomed Kazakh...
International human rights organisations welcomed Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's initiatives aimed at making criminal law more humane and introducing life imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty
- APRIL 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking...
Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking opium and heroin under Vietnam's tough anti-drug laws
- APRIL 11, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed more people than any other country in...
China executed more people than any other country in 2002, two-thirds of the known world total of 1,500, and many of those cases violated international law, the human rights group Amnesty International said
- APRIL 11, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be hanged to death for multiple sectarian murders, court officials said
- APRIL 11, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla...
Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla GarcIa and Jorge Luis Martinez Isaac, three men convicted of terrorism for hijacking of a passenger ferry in Cuba were executed
- APRIL 10, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
A Lehigh County jury sentenced 21-year-old Ramon Sanchez...
A Lehigh County jury sentenced 21-year-old Ramon Sanchez to death on March 13, and Lehigh County Judge William E
- APRIL 10, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer who confessed to his crimes will...
A convicted murderer who confessed to his crimes will get a new trial after the California Supreme Court decided that Omar Dent III was improperly prevented from defending himself
- APRIL 10, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
In occasion of the UNCHR Antoine Madelin, of International...
In occasion of the UNCHR Antoine Madelin, of International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, said that corporal punishments and discrimination against women persisted in Iran
- APRIL 10, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal...
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal for Tony Blair to bow to US demands for Iraqi prisoners of war captured by British forces to be handed over to the US for trial or imprisonment in the United States
- APRIL 10, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational...
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational Radical Party and the Italian Radicals, to ask that funds given to Fidel Castro's regime by the European Commission be suspended