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- JUNE 6, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The motives for the death sentences passed on five...
The motives for the death sentences passed on five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor on charges of infecting over 400 Libyan children with AIDS were not presented, as required by Libyan law
- JUNE 6, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
For the second time the Supreme Court voided the hanging...
For the second time the Supreme Court voided the hanging sentences issued to six members of the Basij, a militant Islamic group of the Iranian regime, thought to be responsible for the murder of five people they had accused of committing "immoral" acts
- JUNE 6, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
twenty-four men as well as 14 women who had participated in a night party in Mashad were arrested
twenty-four men as well as 14 women who had participated in a night party in Mashad were arrested
- JUNE 5, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence on Rehmat Shah Afridi, chief editor...
The death sentence on Rehmat Shah Afridi, chief editor of the Frontier Post,was reduced to life imprisonment by a court in Lahore, Pakistan, which ruled that the drug trafficking charge for which he had been convicted did not warrant capital punishment
- JUNE 5, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
Hiromoto Haruyama, a death row inmate who spent more...
Hiromoto Haruyama, a death row inmate who spent more than a decade fighting his conviction for the brutal rape, murder or injury inflicting of three women, died from in Sapporo Prison, police said
- JUNE 5, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to contact the Libyan government "at a high level" about the death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- JUNE 5, 2004DEATH PENALTY
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to contact the Libyan government "at a high level" about the death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- JUNE 5, 2004DEATH PENALTY
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to contact the Libyan government "at a high level" about the death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- JUNE 5, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to contact the Libyan government "at a high level" about the death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- JUNE 4, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Paul Kutosi , a Ugandan who won an appeal against a...
Paul Kutosi , a Ugandan who won an appeal against a death sentence in Kenya petitioned a human rights body seeking compensation
- JUNE 4, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Paul Kutosi , a Ugandan who won an appeal against a...
Paul Kutosi , a Ugandan who won an appeal against a death sentence in Kenya petitioned a human rights body seeking compensation
- JUNE 4, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Thi, a 31-year-old farmer, was sentenced...
Nguyen Van Thi, a 31-year-old farmer, was sentenced to death by firing squad by the provincial court of Dak Lak province in Vietnam after being convicted of raping and murdering a woman
- JUNE 4, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan High Court sentenced to death Charles Wafula,...
The Ugandan High Court sentenced to death Charles Wafula, Stephen Lulakala and Godfrey Namanda after finding them guilty of murdering a resident of Nalyamagonja, in the Wakiso district
- JUNE 4, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A United Nations committee expressed its concern about...
A United Nations committee expressed its concern about the conditions of children who had defected from North Korea and were living in China
- JUNE 4, 2004DEATH PENALTY
A United Nations committee expressed its concern about...
A United Nations committee expressed its concern about the conditions of children who had defected from North Korea and were living in China
- JUNE 4, 2004CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Conservative leader Stephen Harper was on the defensive...
Conservative leader Stephen Harper was on the defensive about his party's social agenda after he said a Tory government would allow free votes in Canada on issues such as abortion and capital punishment
- JUNE 4, 2004CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Virendra "Victor" Govin, 37, should be executed for...
Virendra "Victor" Govin, 37, should be executed for murdering 4 members of a family in a business dispute, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury decided Friday
- JUNE 4, 2004DelawareDEATH PENALTY
Linda Lou Charbonneau will die by injection for orchestrating...
Linda Lou Charbonneau will die by injection for orchestrating the "egregious, cold-blooded, horrible" killings of her husband and former husband in 2001, Sussex County Superior Court Judge Richard F
- JUNE 4, 2004OhioDEATH PENALTY
Judge David Ellwood announced in the Guernsey County...
Judge David Ellwood announced in the Guernsey County Common Pleas Court that Marvin Johnson would receive the death penalty for the fatal beating and kidnapping of Daniel Bailey, 13
- JUNE 4, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
A jury recommended that Richard Eugene Glossip should...
A jury recommended that Richard Eugene Glossip should die for his role in the death of Barry Alan Van Treese, 54, who was beaten to death on Jan
- JUNE 3, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Following the introduction of Speedy Trial Tribunals...
Following the introduction of Speedy Trial Tribunals by the government, a total of 336 cases had been seen to resulting in 166 death sentences, Justice and Parliament Affairs Minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed said while addressing a seminar on the 'NGOs rol
- JUNE 3, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
One of Vietnam's most notorious gangsters, Truong Van...
One of Vietnam's most notorious gangsters, Truong Van Cam, better known as Nam Cam, was executed for murder and bribery along with four of his men
- JUNE 3, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Quawn Moses Franklin received the death penalty and...
Quawn Moses Franklin received the death penalty and a life sentence without parole for the Dec
- JUNE 2, 2004RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwandan tribunals sentenced 18 people to death in 2003...
Rwandan tribunals sentenced 18 people to death in 2003 for their participation in the 1994 genocide, according to Amnesty International in a report it released the previous week on the state of human rights in the world
- JUNE 2, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Kenya scored highly in its human rights protection...
Kenya scored highly in its human rights protection index in 2003, according to a report by Amnesty International
- JUNE 2, 2004YemenDEATH PENALTY
Sanaa's criminal court condemned four Yemenis to death,...
Sanaa's criminal court condemned four Yemenis to death, three of them in absentia, for murder
- JUNE 2, 2004SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Nyala court in Southern Darfur State, western Sudan,...
The Nyala court in Southern Darfur State, western Sudan, headed by judge Mukhtar Ibrahim Adam, passed a death sentence on Adam Harun Issa, Ahmad Muhammad Abd-al Qadir and Musa Issa Diku
- JUNE 2, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan's lower house of parliament passed a moratorium...
Tajikistan's lower house of parliament passed a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty in the country
- JUNE 2, 2004GhanaDEATH PENALTY
Ghanaian national Martin Anderson, alias Belo, was...
Ghanaian national Martin Anderson, alias Belo, was sentenced to death by the South Jakarta district court, Indonesia, for trying to sell 50 grams (1
- JUNE 2, 2004IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Ghanaian national Martin Anderson, alias Belo, was...
Ghanaian national Martin Anderson, alias Belo, was sentenced to death by the South Jakarta district court, Indonesia, for trying to sell 50 grams (1