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- APRIL 4, 1999CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
On April 4, at a news conference at the offices of...
On April 4, at a news conference at the offices of the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese, Cardinal Roger M
- APRIL 3, 1999North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, it was announced that over 750 public executions...
On April 3, it was announced that over 750 public executions had been carried out between 1995 and 1998 as part of a campaign to repress the criminality engendered by the country's economic crisis
- APRIL 3, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, a court ordered the hanging of Talaat Abdel-Mawgoud,...
On April 3, a court ordered the hanging of Talaat Abdel-Mawgoud, 27, a man who confessed to abducting in January a 3-year-old girl, and repeatedly raped her during more than two months of captivity
- APRIL 3, 1999North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, Bishop F
On April 3, Bishop F
- APRIL 3, 1999TexasDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, Bishop John McCarthy of Austin joined...
On April 3, Bishop John McCarthy of Austin joined 55 American Catholic bishops that issued a Good Friday call for the nation's more than 60 million Catholics to oppose the death penalty in the United States
- APRIL 3, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, the No
On April 3, the No
- APRIL 2, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On April 2, Hiwat Shenkuta Shine, a 24-year-old Ethiopian...
On April 2, Hiwat Shenkuta Shine, a 24-year-old Ethiopian woman confessed to killing her newborn baby by throwing him from a 7th-floor apartment in Sidon at the end of March
- APRIL 2, 1999United StatesDEATH PENALTY
On April 2, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops for...
On April 2, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops for the first time made opposition to the death penalty an urgent priority, addressing the disparity between Catholics who tend to support capital punishment and their Pope, who strongly opposes it
- APRIL 2, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On April 2, a Beijing court sentenced to death Ma Ke,...
On April 2, a Beijing court sentenced to death Ma Ke, 18, and Jiang Tao, 46, for stabbing Zou Jingmeng to death in the city's western Haidian district on February 22
- APRIL 1, 1999OmanDEATH PENALTY
In April, according to a royal decree, Oman introduced...
In April, according to a royal decree, Oman introduced the death penalty for drug traffickers and users in a move mainly aimed at halting the use of the Sultanate as a trans-shipment point for drug smugglers
- APRIL 1, 1999AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
In April, Australia and Iraq were involved in an extradition...
In April, Australia and Iraq were involved in an extradition case
- APRIL 1, 1999TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
In late April, Turkey extradited two Uzbek dissidents,...
In late April, Turkey extradited two Uzbek dissidents, Rustem Mametkulov and Zaynuttin Askarov, after receiving guarantees from Tashkent that the death penalty would not be demanded for them (see: Uzbekistan)