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- JANUARY 20, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Armed robbery or theft carried out with violence is...
Armed robbery or theft carried out with violence is punishable by hanging in Kenya
- JANUARY 19, 2003JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International condemned plans by Jamaica's...
Amnesty International condemned plans by Jamaica's government to resume hangings
- JANUARY 19, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Chechenpress news agency reported that the mutilated...
Chechenpress news agency reported that the mutilated corpse of a local resident was found in the suburbs of Argun (eastern Chechnya) on 17 January 2003
- JANUARY 18, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In what perhaps was a watershed year for North Carolina's...
In what perhaps was a watershed year for North Carolina's death penalty, more death row inmates got reduced sentences - or the chance at them - in 2002 than were allowed to die
- JANUARY 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
State media reported that 18 convicted criminals were...
State media reported that 18 convicted criminals were put to death, 11 of them by lethal injection, in an annual tradition of carrying out executions before the Lunar New Year
- JANUARY 18, 2003SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Slovakia's Justice Minister Daniel...
It was reported that Slovakia's Justice Minister Daniel Lipsic said capital punishment was a "plausible system of penalty, which does not make corrections possible
- JANUARY 17, 2003IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The Presidency of the European Union issued a declaration...
The Presidency of the European Union issued a declaration on behalf of the EU on the decision to commute the sentences of all prisoners on death row in Illinois, US
- JANUARY 17, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court sentenced one man to death and two...
An Iranian court sentenced one man to death and two others to 10-year jail terms for cooperating with an outlawed leftist Kurdish rebel group, the official IRNA news agency reported
- JANUARY 17, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The Presidency of the European Union issued a declaration...
The Presidency of the European Union issued a declaration on behalf of the EU on the decision to commute the sentences of all prisoners on death row in Illinois, US
- JANUARY 16, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Greece, the current holder of the European Union presidency,...
Greece, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called on Democratic Republic of Congo leader Joseph Kabila to commute the death sentences of 30 people involved in the murder of his predecessor and father Laurent Kabila, the foreign ministry
- JANUARY 16, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Dushanbe sentenced Rahim Qalandarov to death
A court in Dushanbe sentenced Rahim Qalandarov to death
- JANUARY 16, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
Walter Schwimmer, Council of Europe Secretary-general,...
Walter Schwimmer, Council of Europe Secretary-general, released a statement commending the decision made by George Ryan, the outgoing Governor of Illinois "for his moral and political leadership in commuting the sentences of all 156 inmates on death row (