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- APRIL 21, 2004PalauDEATH PENALTY
Palau was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Palau was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Romania was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Moldova was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Georgia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004Solomon IslandsDEATH PENALTY
Solomon Islands was a cosponsor of the resolution on...
Solomon Islands was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004PortugalDEATH PENALTY
Portugal was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Portugal was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004Timor-LesteDEATH PENALTY
East Timor was a cosponsor of the resolution on the...
East Timor was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004GabonDEATH PENALTY
Gabon voted in favour of the resolution on the death...
Gabon voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe voted against the resolution on the death...
Zimbabwe voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
Sri Lanka abstained from the resolution on the death...
Sri Lanka abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004BahrainDEATH PENALTY
Bahrain voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Bahrain voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004TogoDEATH PENALTY
Togo voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Togo voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004SudanDEATH PENALTY
Sudan voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Sudan voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the...
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone voted against the resolution on the death...
Sierra Leone voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Uganda voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004United NationsDEATH PENALTY
In response to the adoption of a resolution for a moratorium...
In response to the adoption of a resolution for a moratorium on executions by the UN Commission on Human Rights, Debabrata Saha, a representative of India, said the international community had not yet reached consensus on the issue of capital punishment,
- APRIL 21, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
In Tallahassee the House Public Safety Committee has...
In Tallahassee the House Public Safety Committee has approved 17-1 legislation that would ban the death penalty for people who are under 18 years of age when they commit a capital crime
- APRIL 21, 2004DEATH PENALTY
A House panel gave preliminary approval to a bill backed...
A House panel gave preliminary approval to a bill backed by President Bush to make terrorists crimes that result in death punishable by death or life in prison
- APRIL 21, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Texas court overturns two death sentences The Texas...
Texas court overturns two death sentences The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today overturned two death sentences, one for an inmate it says is mentally retarded and another for a man police said aided in the ambush killing of an officer
- APRIL 21, 2004DEATH PENALTY
UN. COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS APPROVES ANTI DEATH PENALTY RESOLUTION
April 21, 2004: for the eighth consecutive year the Commission approved the anti death penalty resolution for a moratorium on capital executions.
- APRIL 20, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Seif bin Olayan bin Mohammad al-Zughaibi, a Saudi national,...
Seif bin Olayan bin Mohammad al-Zughaibi, a Saudi national, was executed in Riyadh for shooting Abdullah bin Marzouq al-Harbi after a row which broke out as they drove in the capital
- APRIL 20, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Sharia Appeal Court in the central Nigerian city...
The Sharia Appeal Court in the central Nigerian city of Minna, postponed the appeal of a young couple of former lovers who were sentenced to be stoned to death after a new defence lawyer moved to take over the case
- APRIL 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling...
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 20, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling...
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran Van Chung, an unemployed man, was sentenced to...
Tran Van Chung, an unemployed man, was sentenced to death in Vietnam for killing a woman after she spurned his amorous advances
- APRIL 20, 2004SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan...
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan within days to probe alleged atrocities by government-backed militia in the western Darfur region after initially denying the group entry, a UN spokesman said
- APRIL 20, 2004DEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan...
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan within days to probe alleged atrocities by government-backed militia in the western Darfur region after initially denying the group entry, a UN spokesman said
- APRIL 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Vietnam's Dong Nai province sentenced Phan...
A court in Vietnam's Dong Nai province sentenced Phan Thanh Nhan, 21, to death after he was convicted of killing his pregnant lover in October 2003
- APRIL 20, 2004AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan carried out its first execution since the...
Afghanistan carried out its first execution since the fall of the Taliban, putting a bullet to the head of Abdullah Shah, a former military commander convicted of more than 20 murders