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- OCTOBER 13, 2002SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
Hani Ramadan, 43, a Geneva-born junior high school...
Hani Ramadan, 43, a Geneva-born junior high school teacher and also director of the Geneva Islamic Centre, was suspended by Cantonal authorities after he wrote an article for the French newspaper Le Monde in which he defended death by stoning for adultery
- OCTOBER 13, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran has stepped up the number of floggings and executions...
Iran has stepped up the number of floggings and executions and introduced barbaric new punishments, amid accusations that the West is turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in seeking Iranian support for an attack on Iraq, the Telegraph reported
- OCTOBER 13, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The Student Movement Co-Ordination Committee for Democracy...
The Student Movement Co-Ordination Committee for Democracy in Iran's Information Service reported two more executions in the central city of Esfahan, bringing the number of those executed in this city in the last seven days to three
- OCTOBER 12, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Conservative US preacher Jerry Falwell apologized for...
Conservative US preacher Jerry Falwell apologized for calling the prophet Mohammad a terrorist, saying he meant no disrespect to "any sincere, law abiding Muslim
- OCTOBER 11, 2002SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation...
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) expressed deeply concerned by the sentencing to death by stoning of 32 year-old Fatima Usman and 35 year-old Ahmed Ibrahim, in Nigeria
- OCTOBER 11, 2002ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Misconduct by a top Pima County prosecutor prompted...
Misconduct by a top Pima County prosecutor prompted the Arizona Supreme Court to overturn the conviction and death sentence of a Tucson man accused of gunning down three people in the El Grande Market slayings
- OCTOBER 11, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
A Bexar County jury deliberated for less than 2 hours...
A Bexar County jury deliberated for less than 2 hours before deciding that Ramon Hernandez, a registered sex offender convicted in the capital murder of Rosa Maria Rosado, should be put to death
- OCTOBER 11, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A personal representative of Iran's supreme leader...
A personal representative of Iran's supreme leader called for three prominent US Protestant ministers to be killed for insulting the Muslim prophet Mohammed, a report said
- OCTOBER 11, 2002Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
State prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
State prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of Congo want the death penalty for more than 100 suspects on trial for plotting the murder of late President Laurent Kabila, lawyers said
- OCTOBER 11, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
A former senior member of the Japanese doomsday cult...
A former senior member of the Japanese doomsday cult which carried out a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 was sentenced to death
- OCTOBER 11, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China sent Zhu Xiaohua, its most senior financial official...
China sent Zhu Xiaohua, its most senior financial official nabbed for corruption, to jail for 15 years yesterday, but spared him the execution after he confessed to taking bribes prosecutors knew nothing about
- OCTOBER 11, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Martial Appeals Court in Kampala upheld a death...
The Martial Appeals Court in Kampala upheld a death sentence against an ailing UPDF soldier who killed a colleague in Gulu district