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- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
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- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004NepalDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Amnesty International had stepped...
It was reported that Amnesty International had stepped up a campaign to save 10 people on death row in Indonesia
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004MalawiDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Amnesty International had stepped...
It was reported that Amnesty International had stepped up a campaign to save 10 people on death row in Indonesia
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Huntsville, Andrew Flores, 32, was executed this evening
In Huntsville, Andrew Flores, 32, was executed this evening
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Amnesty International had stepped...
It was reported that Amnesty International had stepped up a campaign to save 10 people on death row in Indonesia
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Harith Gary Lee, a man convicted of pushing his girlfriend...
Harith Gary Lee, a man convicted of pushing his girlfriend from the 10th floor of a block of flats in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore, lost his appeal against being hanged
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Islamic law courts in northern Nigeria had failed to...
Islamic law courts in northern Nigeria had failed to respect due legal process and human rights, resulting in discriminatory and harsh sentences, Human Rights Watch said
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Anh Minh, a 36 year old Vietnamese woman, was...
Nguyen Anh Minh, a 36 year old Vietnamese woman, was sentenced to death for attempting to traffic heroin to Taiwan
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Thai appeals court upheld an August 2002 Criminal...
The Thai appeals court upheld an August 2002 Criminal Court decision to sentence Maj
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
The trial and possible execution of Saddam Hussein...
The trial and possible execution of Saddam Hussein would discourage the die-hard remnants of the old Ba'athist regime and "show Iraq and those beyond Iraq that tyranny will not win", Iyad Allawi, the country's interim Prime Minister, said
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2004TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion by...
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion by the state of Tennessee's office of the attorney general to vacate the stay of execution of Philip Workman
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for a man
the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for a man
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Jamaica's Opposition leader Edward Seaga described...
Jamaica's Opposition leader Edward Seaga described the proposed Caribbean Court of Justice as a "kangaroo court" which would be used by the government to violate human rights
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Two men sentenced to hang in Bridgetown's Glendairy...
Two men sentenced to hang in Bridgetown's Glendairy Prison, Barbados, September 21, received a stay of execution
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man convicted of murdering two men and a...
An Iranian man convicted of murdering two men and a woman was hanged publicly in the southern town of Minnab in Hormozgan province, the Kayhan newspaper reported
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Virendra Kumar and Vinod Yadav were sentenced to death...
Virendra Kumar and Vinod Yadav were sentenced to death by a fast track court in Bihar state's Bhagalpur district, India, after they were convicted of raping and killing an eight-year-old girl on August 5, 1998
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tibet sentenced two Nepalese to death, close...
A court in Tibet sentenced two Nepalese to death, close on the heels of an outcry in Nepal over the same punishment awarded to two more Nepalese in an earlier case
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2004NepalDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tibet sentenced two Nepalese to death, close...
A court in Tibet sentenced two Nepalese to death, close on the heels of an outcry in Nepal over the same punishment awarded to two more Nepalese in an earlier case
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Sergey Ivanov, the first deputy chairman of the Federation...
Sergey Ivanov, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council's commission for cooperation with the Audit Chamber, said that he did not approve of the idea of reinstating the death penalty in Russia, commenting on the respective proposal of some depu
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004GhanaDEATH PENALTY
A Ghana Supreme Court nominee, Justice Felix Michael...
A Ghana Supreme Court nominee, Justice Felix Michael Lartey argued that death sentence should be expunged from the country's statute books because it is was not serving any purpose
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chew Seow Leng, a drug addict who refused to give evidence...
Chew Seow Leng, a drug addict who refused to give evidence in his defence, was sentenced to hang in Singapore for heroin trafficking
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa said the ministry would...
Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa said the ministry would continue to maintain its policy of withholding the names of executed inmates, after it hanged two people on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that North Korea may be showing a willingness...
It was reported that North Korea may be showing a willingness to improve its human rights conditions when it discussed the issue with a visiting British envoy
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004DEATH PENALTY
US death penalty opponents hope that Democrat John Kerry, a former prosecutor...
US death penalty opponents hope that Democrat John Kerry, a former prosecutor...
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the head of the public relations office of prisons
the head of the public relations office of prisons
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Two drug traffickers were sentenced to death in Vietnam...
Two drug traffickers were sentenced to death in Vietnam while two of their gang members were jailed for life
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The issue of sentencing terrorists to death needed...
The issue of sentencing terrorists to death needed serious debate, State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov told reporters
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four drug traffickers were executed by firing squad...
Four drug traffickers were executed by firing squad in Vietnam as part of the communist nation's zero tolerance approach to illegal narcotics
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The crimes were the same
The crimes were the same
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man convicted of murdering two men was hanged...
An Iranian man convicted of murdering two men was hanged in the western town of Dezful, the government newspaper Iran reported