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- JUNE 21, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A young German woman was sentenced to five years in...
A young German woman was sentenced to five years in a Singapore jail after pleading guilty to three drug charges
- JUNE 21, 2002FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Broward Circuit Judge Ronald Rothschild sentenced Lucious...
Broward Circuit Judge Ronald Rothschild sentenced Lucious Boyd to death (see also MARCH 12, 2002)
- JUNE 21, 2002PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Sherman Craver, convicted for the 1993 killing of police...
Sherman Craver, convicted for the 1993 killing of police officer Connie Hawkins and his ex-girlfriend Marie Bates, no longer faces death by lethal injection
- JUNE 21, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament gave its...
The lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament gave its approval of amendments to the country's Criminal, Criminal Procedural and Criminal Executive codes
- JUNE 21, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that they cannot...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that they cannot refrain from taking up the abolition of death sentence by saying that this issue was among medium term commitments
- JUNE 21, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Main opposition True Path Party [DYP] leader Tansu...
Main opposition True Path Party [DYP] leader Tansu Ciller has said that parliament should refrain from going into recess in order to allow a comprehensive debate on the commitments made for the EU process, not only the death penalty issue, but the cultura
- JUNE 21, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Davlatbi Nazrieva was seven months pregnant with their...
Davlatbi Nazrieva was seven months pregnant with their third child when her husband, Dovud, was sentenced to death in May 2001
- JUNE 21, 2002North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Tens of thousands of political prisoners face starvation,...
Tens of thousands of political prisoners face starvation, torture and summary execution in prison camps in North Korea, according to the testimony of a prisoner to a US Senate inquiry
- JUNE 20, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court condemned an Afghan national identified...
An Iranian court condemned an Afghan national identified as Mahmoud to death
- JUNE 20, 2002CroatiaDEATH PENALTY
The government initiated the signing of Protocol 13...
The government initiated the signing of Protocol 13 on the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances, alongside the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms
- JUNE 20, 2002New ZealandDEATH PENALTY
The father of murder victim Marcus Doig believes in...
The father of murder victim Marcus Doig believes in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but said bringing back the death sentence will not happen
- JUNE 20, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Ambassador to Tanzania Doku Zavgayev expressed...
Russian Ambassador to Tanzania Doku Zavgayev expressed certainty that two Russian citizens, Ivan Ochirov and Dmitry Kosyakov, sentenced to death for killing in 1997 a Russian teenager, fourteen-year-old Alexei Sotnikov, on Zanzibar (in the composition of