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- JUNE 23, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Former death row inmates, human rights activists and...
Former death row inmates, human rights activists and legislators joined thousands of marchers in silence to protest against capital punishment
- JUNE 23, 2001WashingtonDEATH PENALTY
King County Superior Court Judge Joan DuBuque officially...
King County Superior Court Judge Joan DuBuque officially sentenced to death Dayva Cross, 41
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after...
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after elections were followed by an uprising by more than half a million people who took to the streets of Belgrade, seized the parliament, and burned down the state television station
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the...
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the way for the extradition of former President Slobodan Milosevic to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a...
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a robbery case of an "exceptionally large" criminal gang of 21 members and passed death sentences on 11 suspects, including Min Yongjun and Zeng Wenqing
- JUNE 23, 2001DEATH PENALTY
STRASBOURG, FIRST WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
22 June, 2001: Hands off Cain calls for attention to all those executed whose plight is not known to the world.
- JUNE 22, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Speakers of parliaments from four continents called...
Speakers of parliaments from four continents called for a global ban on capital punishment at the first world congress against the death penalty
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province, seven...
In Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province, seven people were executed for a variety of crimes including murder and robbery
- JUNE 22, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Frank Keating proposed a higher standard for capital...
Gov. Frank Keating proposed a higher standard for capital murder convictions, saying "moral certainty" would be more defensible than the current "beyond a reasonable doubt." At a speech at the National Press Club, Keating suggested the higher threshold
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Baoji Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shaanxi...
Baoji Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shaanxi Province, sentenced to death Xu Baosheng and Xia Jialing, managers of Baoji Finance Security Company for embezzlement of public funds and accepting bribes
- JUNE 22, 2001ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged the Zambian government...
Amnesty International urged the Zambian government to consider abolishing the death penalty, recalling that the country is signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human rights and the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights
- JUNE 22, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
The family of Zainab Saud Aziz, a student murdered...
The family of Zainab Saud Aziz, a student murdered by the Sana'a Ripper Mohammed Adam Omar stated they were furious they had not been invited to witness the execution of her killer and that they suspect he had not been executed