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- APRIL 17, 1999South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
On April 17, South Africa's President-in-waiting Thabo...
On April 17, South Africa's President-in-waiting Thabo Mbeki rejected a return to the death penalty, despite a string of brutal crimes
- APRIL 16, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On April 16, Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate...
On April 16, Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate Said Mirza demanded the death sentence for a woman, Fawz Hajj Hussein Ellao, her sons Abbas and Ellao, and two other men, Imad Matar and Youssef Mohammed, for allegedly murdering a 5-year-old girl, Zeinab
- APRIL 16, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On April 16, Supreme Court Justice George Kanyeihamba,...
On April 16, Supreme Court Justice George Kanyeihamba, a former attorney general, said that the death penalty was not supposed to apply to persons who defile girls over 13, and accused those who drafted the amended Penal Code of making the death penalty a
- APRIL 15, 1999LatviaDEATH PENALTY
On April 15, Parliament (64-15) voted to abolish the...
On April 15, Parliament (64-15) voted to abolish the death penalty
- APRIL 15, 1999AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
On April 15, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected President...
On April 15, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected President of Algeria
- APRIL 14, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, 58 political detainees were executed in...
On April 14, 58 political detainees were executed in the notorious Abu Ghurayb prison, said the Iraqi Communist Party's Human Rights Center in another statement faxed to Reuters in Cairo on 20 July
- APRIL 14, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, intellectuals, students and journalists...
On April 14, intellectuals, students and journalists in a meeting convened at Pethiagachi condemned the rape of a teenage girl at Bokaro and demanded that a special court be set up to try the criminals who perpetrated the heinous crime
- APRIL 14, 1999IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, the Indonesian Government and the House...
On April 14, the Indonesian Government and the House of Representatives agreed to discard the draconian 1963 subversion law and put crimes against the state in the country's Criminal Code
- APRIL 14, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, Ahmad Asqarpour was stoned to death in...
On April 14, Ahmad Asqarpour was stoned to death in public in northern Iran, in Babol, a town bordering the Caspian Sea
- APRIL 14, 1999South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, Vice-president of the African Christian...
On April 14, Vice-president of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) Louis Green said that the fight for the return of capital punishment and the abolition of legalized abortion will be the central pillars of the election campaign
- APRIL 13, 1999OmanDEATH PENALTY
On April 13, Soud bin Khalif bin Salim from Al Kamil...
On April 13, Soud bin Khalif bin Salim from Al Kamil Wa'al Wafi in the Sharqiyah Region was sentenced to death for murdering 65-year-old Habiba bint Nasser bin Mohammed and her brother Ali bin Nasser bin Mohammed
- APRIL 13, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 13, another Saudi man was beheaded in Mecca...
On April 13, another Saudi man was beheaded in Mecca for stabbing to death a fellow citizen