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- JANUARY 25, 2006AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. UN OFFICIAL URGES MORE ACTION ON DEATH PENALTY
UN official Philip Alston criticised the Australian Federal Government over what he said was its failure to stop the death penalty being imposed against Australians overseas. Alston made the comment as Indonesian prosecutors recommended that at least one
- JANUARY 25, 2006MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE. MALAYSIAN MAN TO HANG FOR CHINESE GIRL'S MURDER
Took Leng How, a 23-year-old Malaysian man, was set to be hanged in Singapore for murdering an eight-year-old mainland Chinese girl after loosing his appeal.
- JANUARY 25, 2006LibyaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. HRW URGES LIBYA TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD
Human Rights Watch released a rare report on the situation in Libya, acknowledging that some steps had been taken towards improving freedoms but saying there was little political will to reform.
- JANUARY 25, 2006IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. DEATH SOUGHT FOR ALLEGED ‘BALI 9’ RINGLEADER
Indonesian prosecutors demanded the death sentence for Myuran Sukumaran, a 25 year old Australian accused of organizing the "Bali 9" drug smuggling ring.
- JANUARY 25, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. ORISSA HIGH COURT ORDERS RETRIAL IN DEATH PENALTY CASE
the Orissa High Court, India, quashed the death sentence awarded to Khageswar Behera
- JANUARY 25, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. ORISSA HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE IN PURI MURDER CASE
the Orissa High Court, India, commuted into life imprisonment the death sentence handed down to Kiran Bedi
- JANUARY 25, 2006New JerseyDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN UNION. EU PRESIDENT AUSTRIA WELCOMES US DEATH PENALTY DECISION
EU Council President Austria welcomed a decision by the US state of New Jersey to suspend the death penalty.
- JANUARY 25, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran publicly hanged Ali Khani and Hassan Ghanbari for murder.
Iran publicly hanged Ali Khani and Hassan Ghanbari for murder.
- JANUARY 25, 2006OhioDEATH PENALTY
it was in May 1999 when Nathan Herring and Terrell Yarbrough allegedly...
it was in May 1999 when Nathan Herring and Terrell Yarbrough allegedly kidnapped and murdered 2 university students
JANUARY 25, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. OFFICIALS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BRIBERY
two former Heilongjiang government officials linked to the bribes-for-jobs case were sentenced to death in Harbin, China.
JANUARY 25, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTYTEXAS, USA. MARION DUDLEY PUT TO DEATH IN FIRST TEXAS EXECUTION OF THE YEAR
Marion Dudley, a man convicted of killing four people in Houston 14 years ago was put to death by lethal injection, hours after the Supreme Court rejected a request to spare him.
JANUARY 25, 2006FloridaDEATH PENALTYUNITED STATES. SUPREME COURT BLOCKS FLORIDA EXECUTION OF CLARENCE HILL
the US Supreme Court has blocked the execution of Clarence Hill to consider his appeal over the method used to carry out the punishment.
- JANUARY 24, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BRIBERY
Xu Guojian, former head of the Organization Department of the Party's provincial committee in Jiangsu, was sentenced to death in China’s Fujian province for bribe taking.
- JANUARY 24, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE CONVICTS` EXECUTIONS PUT OFF FOR A MONTH
President General Pervez Musharraf issued orders to defer the executions of three convicts for a month.
- JANUARY 23, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. COE WANTS RUSSIA TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis called on Russia to ratify a protocol banning the death penalty but admitted that Russia had never violated its death penalty moratorium introduced in 1996.
- JANUARY 23, 2006CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
in Visalia, jurors returned death sentences for two brothers already convicted of the July 18...
in Visalia, jurors returned death sentences for two brothers already convicted of the July 18, 1995 Pato's Place bar murders in rural Tulare.
- JANUARY 23, 2006SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE. MAN TO HANG FOR MURDER AFTER LOSING APPEAL
Vijayakumar Veeriah, a 24 year old man convicted of stabbing a close friend to death in Bukit Batok, Singapore, was due to hang after the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction for murdering Suthagar Raja Ram Thomas, 24, at their rented flat in September 2
JANUARY 23, 2006United States Armed ForcesDEATH PENALTYUNITED STATES. US MILITARY ISSUES NEW EXECUTION REGULATIONS
the US Army has issued new regulations governing the death penalty, raising speculation that the military might be preparing for its first execution since 1961.
JANUARY 23, 2006KuwaitDEATH PENALTYTHE PHILIPPINES. DIPLOMATS TOLD TO SAVE MAID FROM EXECUTION IN KUWAIT
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered Philippine diplomats to do everything they could to save a Filipina teacher who was set to hang in Kuwait for killing her boss there.
JANUARY 23, 2006TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN. DEATH ROW INMATE COMMITS SUICIDE, ‘WAITING FOR EXECUTION TOO PAINFUL’
a death row prisoner in Taiwan committed suicide due to being unable to bear the pain of waiting for the execution.
JANUARY 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged in Isfahan, the Iran newspaper reported.
- JANUARY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. SISTERS PUBLISH LIST OF 9,400 IRANIANS 'MURDERED' BY THE REGIME
Ladan and Roya Boroumand, whose father, a pro-democracy opposition leader, was assassinated by an Iranian death squad while living in exile in Paris in 1991, unveiled the largest database of the victims murdered and executed by the theocratic regime since
- JANUARY 21, 2006BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. BULGARIA AGREES 4.4 BLN EURO FUND IN HIV CASE
Bulgaria agreed with Libya to set up a 4.4 billion euro ($5.3 billion) fund for families of children infected with HIV in Libya, a Libyan official said. The deal was likely to defuse a standoff over five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who convi
- JANUARY 20, 2006PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. PHILIPPINE COURT SENTENCES JOURNALIST’S KILLER TO DEATH
the Cebu City Regional Trial Court, the Philippines, sentenced Edgar Belandres to death for fatally shooting a photojournalist in 2004.
- JANUARY 20, 2006VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS INTO VIETNAM
a court in Hanoi sentenced five people to death and four others to life imprisonment for trafficking 24 kg of heroin into Vietnam from Laos.
- JANUARY 20, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. COUNCIL OF EUROPE PRESIDENCY SHOULD PROMOTE DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM, FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Russia's presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe should help advocates of the death penalty moratorium to persuade the majority of State Duma MPs of the feasibility of the sixth protocol ratification which presupposes the cancell
JANUARY 20, 2006North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYNORTH CAROLINA, USA. PERRIE SIMPSON EXECUTED
Perrie Dyon Simpson was executed early morning for the 1984 murder of a retired minister, the North Carolina Department of Correction said.
JANUARY 20, 2006Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA. MINISTER CLEARED, FIVE CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR ELECTION DAY KILLINGS
Sri Lanka's High Court cleared a former deputy defence minister and his two sons over the killing of 10 men but handed down death penalties to five soldiers who were involved.
- JANUARY 19, 2006South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
a man who had been sentenced to death has been resentenced to life...
a man who had been sentenced to death has been resentenced to life in prison after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling vacated his original sentence, Assistant 11th Circuit Solicitor Dayton Riddle said.
- JANUARY 19, 2006AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
A Jefferson County circuit judge followed a jury recommendation that Kenneth Eugene Billups, 30, die by lethal injection.
A Jefferson County circuit judge followed a jury recommendation that Kenneth Eugene Billups, 30, die by lethal injection.