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JANUARY 16, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA PAYS $11.56 A DAY TO WOMAN WRONGLY JAILED
China has awarded exactly 66,593.36 yuan ($9,200)
JANUARY 16, 2008TexasDEATH PENALTYTEXAS (USA). APPEALS COURT FIND DEATH ROW INMATE MENTALLY RETARDED
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has reduced a death sentence to life
- JANUARY 15, 2008KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT COURT CONDEMNS EGYPTIAN TO DEATH FOR CHILD RAPE
Kuwait's criminal court sentenced an Egyptian man to death after convicting him of raping several children, a legal source said.
- JANUARY 15, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA FOR MURDER OF MISTRESS
a former Chinese government official was sentenced to death for ordering his driver to kill his mistress, a court official and state media said.
- JANUARY 15, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
the death sentence of Javid, 20...
the death sentence of Javid, 20...
- JANUARY 15, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
a minor offender, named Amir, is at imminent risk of execution...
a minor offender, named Amir, is at imminent risk of execution...
JANUARY 15, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. HANGINGS MAY RESUME
The Patrick Manning government wants to use its new term in office to ensure
JANUARY 15, 2008Vatican CityDEATH PENALTYPOPE: RADICALS, BELATED INTERVENTION BY RATZINGER ON THE DEATH PENALTY AT LA SAPIENZA
Elisabetta Zamparutti, Treasurer of the Italian Radicals and of Hands Off
JANUARY 15, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS A RESIDENT CONVICTED OF KILLING HIS MOTHER
Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a foreign resident convicted
- JANUARY 14, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: IRAN'S STONING A CRUEL AND UNACCEPTABLE PRACTICE
as nine women and two men in Iran wait to be stoned to death, Amnesty International called on the Iranian authorities to abolish execution by stoning and impose an immediate moratorium on this horrific practice, specifically designed to increase the suffe
- JANUARY 14, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TOP CAMPAIGNER HARASSED
Emaddedin Baghi, Iran’s leading anti-death penalty campaigner, is back behind bars in the country’s notorious Evin prison after intense harassment leading to his hospitalisation and concern that he may have suffered a heart attack.
- JANUARY 14, 2008NepalDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: DOLMA’S DEATH SENTENCE APPEALED
Prakash Kumar Subedi, deputy chief of a Saudi Arabia based Nepali mission said that Dolma Sherpa, a Nepalese woman sentenced to death for murder, appealed the verdict in an appellate court in Kuwait.
JANUARY 14, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS MAN FOR MURDER
a Saudi man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword
JANUARY 14, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. FOUR AHWAZI ACTIVISTS EXECUTED
four Ahwazi activists were executed in secret last week by the Iranian
- JANUARY 13, 2008LebanonDEATH PENALTY
ISRAELI SENTENCED TO DEATH IN LEBANON
a Lebanese military court issued a death verdict against an Israeli officer charged with assassination of two Palestinian fighters.
- JANUARY 13, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: JEDDAH COURT REOPENS CASE OF ABU KAB
the Jeddah Court in Saudi Arabia reopened the case of Faisal Al-Otaibi (Abu Kab), the joy rider who was convicted of killing three children in his car as he was performing a driving stunt.
JANUARY 13, 2008JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN. RECORD NUMBER OF DEATH SENTENCES IN 2007
The number of people sentenced to death in Japanese courts in 2007 rose to
JANUARY 13, 2008SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA GOVT EXECUTES CONVICTED SOLDIER
Somalia's interim government executed a soldier convicted of killing
- JANUARY 12, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: RAPE AND MURDER CONVICT GETS DEATH PENALTY
the Bombay High Court sentenced a man convicted of raping and murdering a ten year old girl to death. Harish Rajput murdered the minor by strangling her with a rope.
- JANUARY 12, 2008IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDIS BEHEAD INDONESIAN MAID
Saudi authorities beheaded an Indonesian maid, Yanti Irianti...
JANUARY 12, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. KURD HANGED ON A STRETCHER
the Kurdish magazine Asu has published the photo of the execution in Iran of a Kurd with Turkish citizenship, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported.
- JANUARY 11, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BIHAR
a court in Bihar, India, awarded the death sentence to two people and life terms to seven others for killing a villager in Bihar's Banka district in 1999.
- JANUARY 11, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO BEHEADED RELATIVE
the Bombay High Court in India confirmed the death sentence awarded to an accused in a case of murder in which he severed the head of the victim with a sickle.
- JANUARY 11, 2008GermanyDEATH PENALTY
GERMANY: COURT OVERTURNS NAZI VERDICT ON REICHSTAG ARSONIST
Germany's federal prosecutor overturned the guilty verdict passed on Marinus van der Lubbe...
JANUARY 11, 2008DEATH PENALTYIRAN. FOUR HANGED FOR MURDER
Iran has recently hanged four men convicted of murder in different
JANUARY 11, 2008Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE. COMMISSION RECOMMENDS ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
The Constitutional Review Commission of Sierra Leone, has among
- JANUARY 10, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING WIFE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan awarded the death sentence to Abdul Khaliq, a resident of Murree, Pakistan, who axed his wife to death on a family dispute in 2006.
- JANUARY 10, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE PROSECUTOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TAKING BRIBES
a former prosecutor in northern China was sentenced to death for taking bribes and embezzling funds totalling $2.66m
- JANUARY 10, 2008ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Media Cannot Watch Executions in Arkansas...
Media Cannot Watch Executions in Arkansas...
- JANUARY 10, 2008FloridaDEATH PENALTY
a Miami drug trafficker convicted in 1991 in the September...
a Miami drug trafficker convicted in 1991 in the September...