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- JULY 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN IN THEIR 20S HANGED IN PUBLIC
Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the western city of Boroujerd.
- JULY 19, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS. SAN ANTONIO MAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING STUDENT
a Texas gang member has been put to death by lethal injection for the 1996 murder of a San Antonio man - a crime for which he recanted his earlier confession.
- JULY 19, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT REVERSES DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER, SETS MAN FREE
the Madhya Pradesh High Court, India...
- JULY 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
three men, who were convicted of raping a woman in Pakistan's southern Punjab province, were hanged in central city of Lahore, a jail official said.
- JULY 18, 2006NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA. SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE ON POLICEMAN
more than five years after they committed the heinous crime, the Supreme Court has unanimously confirmed the death sentence passed on Constable Benjamin Oyakhire, one of the three police constables who murdered five businessmen on February 17, 2001 on Oke
- JULY 18, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. FOUR DEATH SENTENCES CONFIRMED IN MUHURI MURDER CASE
the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh confirmed the death sentence of four convicts in the Gopal Krishna Muhuri murder case.
- JULY 18, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HACKING REVENGE
Liang Jiqian, a man in Qinzhou in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was sentenced to death after being convicted of hacking to death five children and one woman in an act of revenge.
- JULY 18, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DEPUTY MAYOR GIVEN SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY FOR CORRUPTION
Wang Qingming, former deputy county magistrate of Guiding in China’s Guizhou province, was sentenced to death for corruption and accepting bribes of more than 8m yuan [999,625 US dollars].
- JULY 17, 2006BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. QADDAFI COULD GRANT BULGARIAN NURSES AMNESTY
Libyan court will confirm the death sentences of Bulgaria's five nurses, a newspaper has said citing anonymous sources.
- JULY 17, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
two Kyrgyz men charged with killing a parliamentarian have been sentenced to death, the general prosecutor's office said.
- JULY 17, 2006United StatesDEATH PENALTY
AMA: Physician Participation in Lethal Injection...
AMA: Physician Participation in Lethal Injection Violates Medical Ethics Following is a statement of William G. Plested, III, M.D., president, American Medical Association
- JULY 17, 2006MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. EU WELCOMES COMPLETE ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY IN MOLDOVA
the European Union issued the following common foreign and security policy statement:
- JULY 14, 2006KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT. INDIAN NATIONAL EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Shakarullah Ansari, a native of Uttar Pradesh, India, was hanged till death at 8:15 am Kuwait time on charges of murdering his employer.
- JULY 14, 2006South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH CAROLINA, USA. MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPE, MURDER OF BOY
making no final statement and keeping his eyes trained on the ceiling, William "Junior" Downs was put to death by lethal injection for the 1999 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 6-year-old South Carolina boy.
- JULY 14, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
TURKEY. WOMEN PROTEST STONING TO DEATH OF IRANIAN
Turkish women organizations joined the growing international campaign for Iranian woman prisoner Melek Ghorbany who was sentenced to death by stoning on June 28, by a court in the northwest Iranian city of Urmia after being found guilty of committing adul
- JULY 14, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILING SIX BOYS
a Chinese court sentenced Gong Runbo to death for killing six boys. Gong, 33...
- JULY 14, 2006DEATH PENALTY
the state of Missouri told a federal judge that it cannot meet his demand...
the state of Missouri told a federal judge that it cannot meet his demand...
- JULY 13, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER IN 15TH PUNJAB EXECUTION IN TWO WEEKS
Tauseef Munna was hanged till death in the 15th execution in Pakistan's Punjab province in the last two weeks. He had been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2002 for killing a four-year old boy. Prosecution lawyers said that the boy was kid
- JULY 13, 2006South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE. AMNESTY ASKS SINGAPORE NOT TO HANG TWO AFRICAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS
Amnesty International said it had written to Singapore President S.R. Nathan asking him to intervene to stop a Nigerian and a South African convicted of drug trafficking from being hanged.
- JULY 13, 2006MissouriDEATH PENALTY
MISSOURI, USA. ANESTHESIOLOGISTS UNWILLING TO ASSIST IN EXECUTIONS
The state will comply with a federal judge's order to revamp its execution procedures by Saturday's deadline but may not be able to conduct any, the head of Missouri's Department of Corrections said today.
- JULY 13, 2006NevadaDEATH PENALTY
in a 4-3 ruling, the Nevada Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence...
in a 4-3 ruling, the Nevada Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence...
- JULY 13, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, Majid Rigi, for drug-related crime.
Iran hanged a man, Majid Rigi, for drug-related crime.
- JULY 12, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FIVE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
five people convicted of gang- raping a woman were hanged in the early morning at the district jail in Sialkot, about 125 km north of Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, Pakistan, jail Superintendent Abdul Razaq Niazi said.
- JULY 12, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. FOUR MEN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
four men convicted of serious drug trafficking were hanged in the southeasten town of Zabol. The town is near Iran’s border with Afghanistan and Pakistan, and sits on a major narcotics trafficking route.
- JULY 12, 2006North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
ITALY. 'PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS' IN NORTH KOREA CONFERENCE
the international conference “Promoting human rights and religious freedom in North Korea: where do we go from here?”, organised by Freedom House together with the Transnational Radical Party, was held in Rome.
- JULY 12, 2006OhioDEATH PENALTY
Rocky Barton died by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville.
Rocky Barton died by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville.
- JULY 12, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. MPS DROP DEATH PENALTY FROM ANTI TERROR LAW
MPs dropped the death penalty from all but one clause of Bahrain's proposed anti-terrorism law.
- JULY 12, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
EU. THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CONDEMNS CHINA ON HUMAN AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS
the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has, with a wide majority, adopted a report on relations between the European Union and China which asks Beijing for greater respect of human rights, religious freedom and freedom of information.
- JULY 12, 2006BruneiDEATH PENALTY
BRUNEI. MALAYSIAN NATIONAL SENTENCED TO DEATH ON DRUGS CHARGES
Mohammad bin Usin, 28, a Malaysian national, was sentenced to death by the Brunei High Court after he pleaded guilty to transporting from Miri...
- JULY 11, 2006DEATH PENALTY
TEXAS. MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPE, MURDER OF TWO TEENS
Derrick O'Brien was put to death by lethal injection for his part in the 1993 gang-rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. O'Brien, 31, was condemned for raping and killing Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, in a Houston park on June 24, 1993.