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- MARCH 31, 1999South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
On March 31, President Nelson Mandela said the death...
On March 31, President Nelson Mandela said the death penalty would not be restored while the African National Congress was in power because "slaughtering people" was not a solution to crime
- MARCH 29, 1999MassachusettsDEATH PENALTY
In 1998, a bill to restore the death penalty was defeated...
In 1998, a bill to restore the death penalty was defeated by one vote
- MARCH 28, 1999SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
On March 28, Serbia's Justice Minister Dragoljub Jankovic...
On March 28, Serbia's Justice Minister Dragoljub Jankovic wrote to the competent Yugoslav federal bodies proposing that the Federal Government facilitate criminal procedures in times of war, in view of NATO's aggression
- MARCH 27, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On March 27, a court in Zhengzhouhanded down the death...
On March 27, a court in Zhengzhouhanded down the death sentence with a 2 year reprieve to Ma Jiangping, director of a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), for embezzlement and misuse of nearly 200 million yuan ($24
- MARCH 26, 1999South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
On March 26, police arrested two young Russian women...
On March 26, police arrested two young Russian women in South Korea, Yelena Patrina and Tatyana Bednenko, both born in 1976, from the Russian city of Khabarovsk, charging them with the murder of another Russian young woman, a friend of the two, Tatyana Ye
- MARCH 26, 1999TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
On March 26, the Supreme Court sentenced Mizomuddin...
On March 26, the Supreme Court sentenced Mizomuddin Valiyev, Saidrakhmon Davuvoz and Yakub Darveshev to death by firing squad
- MARCH 26, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On March 26, a meeting of the Justice Coordination...
On March 26, a meeting of the Justice Coordination Committee chaired by Justice Minister Suthas Ngernmuen was held to consider the proposal by the Corrections Department that lethal injections replace gunshots as a method of execution
- MARCH 25, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On March 25, four men, Zakaria Hassan Naddawi, 25,...
On March 25, four men, Zakaria Hassan Naddawi, 25, Walid Mohammed Jamal Youzbashi, 25, Azzam Ali Raai, 29, and Khaled Mohammed Jamaleddine, 47, were charged with the premeditated murder of Omar and Doha Mrad in 1997
- MARCH 25, 1999IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
On March 25, the House of Representatives passed a...
On March 25, the House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution calling for a 6-month moratorium on executions and initiated public hearings around the state to study all aspects of the application of the death penalty in Illinois
- MARCH 23, 1999GermanyDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, Germany introduced the question of the...
On March 23, Germany introduced the question of the death penalty at the Commission on Human Rights and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer declared in his inaugural speech: "Europeans believe that the death penalty can not be justified either ethically or l
- MARCH 23, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, during a state visit of Ukrainian President...
On March 23, during a state visit of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to Sweden, Birgitta Dahl of the Swedish Riksdag (Parliament) called attention to issues concerning Ukraine's membership in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and to t
- MARCH 23, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon,...
On March 23, a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, who confessed earlier in March in Havana's Provincial Tribunal, was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death for a string of 1997 bombings in hotels and a restaurant, which killed an Italian tour