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- AUGUST 1, 2004TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice's opened prison facilities to the public.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice's opened prison facilities to the public.
- AUGUST 1, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the judicial system issued the death sentence of a man in Tehran
the judicial system issued the death sentence of a man in Tehran
- JULY 31, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhang Shuzhen, a woman who killed her gambler husband...
Zhang Shuzhen, a woman who killed her gambler husband before cooking and eating part of his body, was sentenced to death in China
- JULY 31, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)...
The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) launched an exercise to mobilise public opinion against the death sentence of Dhananjay Chatterjee, a man convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl in West Bengal
- JULY 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran van Giao was sentenced to death by firing squad...
Tran van Giao was sentenced to death by firing squad for defrauding investors out of 1
- JULY 31, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's leading academic dissident Hashem Aghajari was...
Iran's leading academic dissident Hashem Aghajari was freed on bail on after two years in jail facing the death penalty for telling Iranians not to follow their clerical leaders like "monkeys"
- JULY 31, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian regime's media reported that four young...
The Iranian regime's media reported that four young men, Arash, Davoud, Ali and Javad, had been sentenced to death in Mashad, Iran
- JULY 31, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the Public Relations of the Revolutionary Guards Forces announced
the Public Relations of the Revolutionary Guards Forces announced
- JULY 30, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Bangladesh sentenced to death in absentia...
A court in Bangladesh sentenced to death in absentia M Abdul Majid and awarded life imprisonment to Hasan Ali, 45, Bhimpur UP chairman in the Mahadevpur and to Shamsul for the murder of businessman Azimuddin
- JULY 30, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Do Van Thao, a 24-year-old unemployed man, was sentenced...
Do Van Thao, a 24-year-old unemployed man, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Vietnam after being convicted of killing and robbing an elderly woman
- JULY 30, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Thanh, unemployed, was sentenced to death...
Nguyen Van Thanh, unemployed, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Vietnam after being convicted of killing a motorbike taxi driver 13 years earlier and stealing his possessions
- JULY 30, 2004MissouriDEATH PENALTY
In Osceola, a jury recommends the death sentence for...
In Osceola, a jury recommends the death sentence for David Zink, 45, convicted of killing 19-year-old Amanda Morton on July 12th, 2001
- JULY 30, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed that Egypt's top military state security...
It was revealed that Egypt's top military state security court commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty imposed in his absence on Islamist leader Hamed Abbes
- JULY 30, 2004Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
President Maxwell Richards granted a pardon to convicted...
President Maxwell Richards granted a pardon to convicted murderer, Boodram Bedassie, 64, who had spent more than 17 and a half years on death row for a murder he committed in 1972
- JULY 30, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanese Justice Minister Bahij Tabbara said that a...
Lebanese Justice Minister Bahij Tabbara said that a proposal submitted by seven deputies to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment with hard labor would mean the creation of a completely new category of punishment in Lebanese law
- JULY 29, 2004UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Oybek Ruzmetov, born in 1965, and Uyghun Ruzmetov,...
Oybek Ruzmetov, born in 1965, and Uyghun Ruzmetov, born in 1970 "had been secretly sentenced to death in the Tashkent Prosecutor's Office under the Wahhabi banner and had been interrogated without defence lawyers"
- JULY 29, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In Denver, the 10th U
In Denver, the 10th U
- JULY 29, 2004PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Alan Lee Pursell has now been taken off death row
Alan Lee Pursell has now been taken off death row
- JULY 29, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl...
An Iranian man convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl was hanged publicly in a square in the southern city of Kerman, the conservative Jomhuri Islami newspaper reported
- JULY 28, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain's government would continue providing consular...
Spain's government would continue providing consular assistance to Eva Maria Monfort, a Spaniard whose Moroccan husband, Bouchain Maghder, faced the death penalty for his role in the May 2003 terrorist bombings in Casablanca
- JULY 28, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Kingston, Jamaica: Prime Minister P
Kingston, Jamaica: Prime Minister P
- JULY 28, 2004KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the moratorium on the death penalty...
It was reported that the moratorium on the death penalty that had been in act in Kazakhstan since the beginning of 2004 had not caused an increase in crime in the country
- JULY 28, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
A Brevard jury for the 3rd time in 10 years has recommended...
A Brevard jury for the 3rd time in 10 years has recommended Johnny Hoskins be executed for raping, kidnapping and fatally beating his 80-year-old neighbor
- JULY 28, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Jurors decided Anthony Quinn Francois, 36, should be...
Jurors decided Anthony Quinn Francois, 36, should be put to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend's younger sisters
- JULY 28, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
A Japanese court upheld death sentences against two...
A Japanese court upheld death sentences against two Aum Supreme Truth cult members for spreading deadly Sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 12 people
- JULY 28, 2004United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The United Arab Emirates enacted its first counter-terrorism...
The United Arab Emirates enacted its first counter-terrorism law, imposing strict sentences for offenders including the death penalty
- JULY 28, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
one hundred and fifty men and women participating
one hundred and fifty men and women participating
- JULY 28, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the death sentence of Mohammad Reza Heidari was issued by
the death sentence of Mohammad Reza Heidari was issued by
- JULY 27, 2004KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty...
The introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty in Kazakhstan had not helped resolve all problems facing prison inmates with death penalty sentences, said Ivar Vikki, head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's center in Almaty
- JULY 27, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgaria rejected a Libyan proposal for a deal to save...
Bulgaria rejected a Libyan proposal for a deal to save five Bulgarian nurses convicted of deliberately infecting children with AIDS from a firing squad and insisted that they were innocent