Death penalty

PAKISTAN. 34 DISMISSED, 24 AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR FINANCIAL ANOMALIES IN POST OFFICES, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

34 employees were dismissed and 24 others awarded capital punishment during the last two years for their involvement in 49 embezzlement cases and financial irregularities in the General Post Office (GPO) and other Post Offices.

EU. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PASSES RESOLUTION ON N. KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS

the European Parliament adopted a resolution urging North Korea to improve its human rights conditions in a plenary session held at the French city of Strasbourg.

JAPAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF 2 IN FUKUSHIMA

the Fukushima District Court's Koriyama branch sentenced 57-year-old Minoru Watanabe to death for the murder of two people in 2001 in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. The court said Watanabe played a leading role in the murders, dismissing his argument that

Salisu Babuga was executed in Jos prison in Nigeria

Salisu Babuga was executed in Jos prison in Nigeria

PAKISTAN. DEATH PENALTY FOR SUNNI MILITANT

Mohammad Aslam, also known as Muawia, was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan after being found guilty of killing six Shia Muslims during an attack in 1995. He had pleaded not guilty.

ITALY. HANDS OFF CAIN WELCOMES FOREIGN MINISTER’S COMMITMENT IN ABOLISHMENT OF DEATH PENALTY

Hands Off Cain appreciates the announcement made today by Italy’s Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema who, whilst expounding the guidelines for Italy’s foreign policy, reaffirmed Italy’s commitments for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide.

PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER

Mohammad Khan was hanged in Faisalabad District Jail, Pakistan, in the morning hours.

IRAN. FOUR ARABS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM

four Arabs convicted of unrest in Iran's southeastern oil city of Ahwaz were sentenced to death.

THE PHILIPPINES. EVANGELICALS TO ABANDON ARROYO OVER ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY

a Catholic Church prelate said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may lose the support of the Philippine Council for Evangelical Churches (PCEC) and other religious groups and organizations in favour of capital punishment should she approve the abolition o

PAKISTAN. LAHORE HIGH COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE TO MURDER CONVICT

the Lahore High Court, Pakistan, confirmed the death sentence to Mohammad Hussain of Faisalabad...

AUSTRALIA. SINGAPORE PM STANDS FIRM ON DEATH PENALTY

the prime ministers of Singapore and Australia discussed their differences over Singapore's use of the death penalty.

UNITED NATIONS. UN BODY CONCERNED OVER JUVENILE EXECUTION IN IRAN

the representative of UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, condemned the execution of juveniles in Iran.

IRAN. FIVE HANGED FOR RAPE AND KIDNAPPING

five Iranian men convicted of kidnapping and rape were hanged in the southern cities of Kerman and Zahedan.

JAPAN. DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR MAN WHO KILLED 2 IN OSAKA WHILE ON PAROLE

Japan’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Susumu Nakayama, a man who stabbed two people to death in Osaka Prefecture in 1998, seven years after he was released on parole while serving a life imprisonment sentence imposed for a separate murder an

MALAYSIA. COURT DISMISSES DEATH PENALTY APPEAL OF DECEASED MAN

the Malaysian Federal Court dismissed the appeal of businessman Alex Wong Teck Choy against his death sentence for murder. During the hearing, counsel Datuk Muhammad Shafee Abdullah informed the court that his client had died on May 8.

PAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE TO BE HANGED WITHIN NEXT THREE DAYS

it was reported that three death row convicts were scheduled to be hanged in the following three days

TAIWAN. NO VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said that Taiwan had not violated any human rights principles in its handling of capital punishment cases or in its treatment of death-row inmates, but it promised to refer to other countries' measures to refine the existing

SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

HANDS OFF CAIN: MYTH SURROUNDING HUMANENESS OF LETHAL INJECTION CRACKING, SERGIO D’ELIA

following the US Supreme Court’s decision to allow inmates to challenge lethal injection, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, Sergio D’Elia, declared: “Once again, following the abolition of the death penalty for those with mental retardation, for minors and th

IRAN. THREE MEN EXECUTED IN WESTERN IRAN

three men were hanged in city of Qazvin, west of Tehran.

IRAN. MINOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

a 17 year old boy was sentenced to death in Iran for murder, according to the daily ‘Etemad’.

UNITED STATES. COURT ALLOWS INMATE APPEAL ON LETHAL INJECTION

US Supreme Court ruled that a death row inmate can bring a challenge under a federal civil rights law to the method of execution that uses a lethal three-chemical cocktail.

AZERBAIJAN. PRISONERS ON DEATH ON HUNGER STRIKE

109 prisoners whose verdict was replaced by life imprisonment after abolishment of capital punishment launched hunger strike.

IRAN. THREE WOMEN HANGED

three women were reported to have been hanged in Qazvin, west of Tehran.

THE PHILIPPINES. CATHOLIC PRIESTS SUPPORT DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION

the Butuan Diocesan Council, the Philippines, stated its support for the law abolishing the death penalty. Fr. Joecilo Amalla of the Butuan Diocesan Council said that as a Christian country, "we should not inflict death penalty."

THE PHILIPPINES. SC INSISTS ECHEGARAY EXECUTION WAS CORRECT

the Philippines Supreme Court stood firm on its 1996 ruling that sent convicted rapist Leo Echegaray to his death, in light of a brewing storm over a public statement by Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban that the court may have committed an irreversible “j

NIGERIA. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RITUAL KILLING

a Mgbidi High Court, Nigeria, sentenced Obinna Onyema and Benjamin Arizo to death for killing one Damian Okorocha for ritual purposes, on October 8, 2002 at Ubaha Etiti Omuma, Oru.

UGANDA. TWO PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

it was reported that the previous week, the High Court in Mbale, Uganda, sentenced two men to death after they were found guilty of committing robbery with violence.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. COURT CONDEMNS ALLEGED ADULTERER TO DEATH BY STONING

an Islamic court in the United Arab Emirates condemned a man to death by stoning and his female lover to one year in jail and 100 lashes.