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- JULY 8, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two Hong Kong residents were executed in southern China...
Two Hong Kong residents were executed in southern China for murdering a friend then chopping up his body
- JULY 8, 2004NepalDEATH PENALTY
Purna Maya Shrestha claimed that her Nepali, Ishowri...
Purna Maya Shrestha claimed that her Nepali, Ishowri Shrestha, who was facing a death sentence in China, was innocent
- JULY 8, 2004IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri rejected...
Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri rejected appeals for clemency made by seven drug traffickers who had been sentenced to death
- JULY 8, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
A criminal court in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala...
A criminal court in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala issued the first six death sentences in the country since the toppling of former president Saddam Hussein's regime, local newspaper Al Taakhi reported
- JULY 8, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The upper house of the Tajik parliament, the National...
The upper house of the Tajik parliament, the National Assembly, endorsed a new law implementing a moratorium on the death penalty in the country and replacing capital punishment with a prison term
- JULY 8, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri rejected...
Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri rejected appeals for clemency made by seven drug traffickers who had been sentenced to death
- JULY 8, 2004ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
The following are extracts from an editorial entitled...
The following are extracts from an editorial entitled "Why Death Penalty Should Be Abolished?" by John Dzvinamurungu, vice-chairman of Amnesty International Zimbabwe
- JULY 8, 2004ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Pima County Superior Court Judge Charles Sabalos overturned...
Pima County Superior Court Judge Charles Sabalos overturned Jose Amaya-Ruiz's death sentence, a Salvadoran convicted in the 1985 stabbing death of Kimberly McManus-Lopez, the 27-year-old pregnant wife of a ranch owner who employed Amaya-Ruiz as a stable h
- JULY 8, 2004CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
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- JULY 8, 2004DEATH PENALTY
TAJIKISTAN. UPPER HOUSE ENDORSES DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM
July 8, 2004: the upper house of the Tajik parliament endorsed a new law implementing a moratorium on the death penalty in the country and replacing death sentences with prison terms.
- JULY 7, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnamese national Nguyen Van Hung, 28, was sentenced...
Vietnamese national Nguyen Van Hung, 28, was sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City after was found guilty of stabbing to death Tran Dac Phong in October 2000 and stealing his motorcycle
- JULY 7, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian prosecutors sought the death sentence for...
Indonesian prosecutors sought the death sentence for a Kenyan man charged with attempting to smuggle more than one kilogram of heroin into the country
- JULY 7, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China is using the global war on terror to justify...
China is using the global war on terror to justify repression of its Uighur community who face torture and execution when forcibly returned from neighbouring countries, Amnesty International said
- JULY 7, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Ten death row inmates were scheduled to be executed...
Ten death row inmates were scheduled to be executed in September, Philippine acting Justice Secretary Merceditas Gutierrez said
- JULY 7, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
With anger mounting that Saddam Hussein had not been...
With anger mounting that Saddam Hussein had not been charged over his invasion of and use of chemical weapons against Iran, Iranian MPs called for the ousted Iraqi dictator to stand before an international court
- JULY 7, 2004IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian prosecutors sought the death sentence for...
Indonesian prosecutors sought the death sentence for a Kenyan man charged with attempting to smuggle more than one kilogram of heroin into the country
- JULY 7, 2004ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Former Bangkok senator Sukhum Cherdchuen was sentenced...
Former Bangkok senator Sukhum Cherdchuen was sentenced to death by a criminal court in Thailand after being found guilty of masterminding the murder of a woman doctor in 1996
- JULY 7, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
With anger mounting that Saddam Hussein had not been...
With anger mounting that Saddam Hussein had not been charged over his invasion of and use of chemical weapons against Iran, Iranian MPs called for the ousted Iraqi dictator to stand before an international court
- JULY 7, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
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- JULY 7, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
“We want a restricted death penalty, for a limited time...
“We want a restricted death penalty, for a limited time...
- JULY 6, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that...
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced former gangster Ryoji Goto to death for killing two people in two separate cases
- JULY 6, 2004Equatorial GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called on Equatorial Guinea to...
Amnesty International called on Equatorial Guinea to rein in its security forces and stop them killing, torturing and raping detainees, many of whom had been arrested arbitrarily
- JULY 6, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Kazakh Foreign Ministry was taking measures to...
The Kazakh Foreign Ministry was taking measures to ease the sentences passed by Chinese courts on four Kazakh citizens found guilty of committing crimes in China, the director of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry's consular service department, Valikhan Konurbay
- JULY 6, 2004KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kazakh Foreign Ministry was taking measures to...
The Kazakh Foreign Ministry was taking measures to ease the sentences passed by Chinese courts on four Kazakh citizens found guilty of committing crimes in China, the director of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry's consular service department, Valikhan Konurbay
- JULY 6, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was...
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was abolished, winning a reprieve for more than 60 prisoners on death row, in a historic judgment from nine judges sitting in London
- JULY 6, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was...
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was abolished, winning a reprieve for more than 60 prisoners on death row, in a historic judgment from nine judges sitting in London
- JULY 6, 2004DEATH PENALTY
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was...
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was abolished, winning a reprieve for more than 60 prisoners on death row, in a historic judgment from nine judges sitting in London
- JULY 6, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced three members...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced three members of an outlawed Islamic group to death after finding them guilty of killing at least six minority Shi'ite Muslims
- JULY 6, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was...
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was abolished, winning a reprieve for more than 60 prisoners on death row, in a historic judgment from nine judges sitting in London
- JULY 6, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the fear of capital punishment...
It was reported that the fear of capital punishment made Noor Mohammed, a rapist, admit his crime and also return the victim, whom he had kidnapped, to her family in West Bengal