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- MARCH 31, 2004CambodiaDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of...
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of Vietnamese origin, was executed in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for belonging to a methamphetamine manufacturing and trafficking network
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Anh Tuan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese drug addict,...
Nguyen Anh Tuan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese drug addict, was put to death by firing squad at dawn in Ho Chi Minh City for murdering a motorbike taxi driver in January 2001 to fund his heroin addiction
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four people, including a married couple, were sentenced...
Four people, including a married couple, were sentenced to death in Vietnam after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country from Laos
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Vietnam's southern province of...
The People's Court in Vietnam's southern province of Binh Phuoc sentenced to death Nguyen Hai Son, 40
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of...
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of Vietnamese origin, was executed in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for belonging to a methamphetamine manufacturing and trafficking network
- MARCH 31, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Troy Burkhart will return to death row for killing...
Troy Burkhart will return to death row for killing 3 people more than 6 years ago
- MARCH 31, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico hailed the world court ruling calling for review...
Mexico hailed the world court ruling calling for review of death sentences against 51 Mexicans in US prisons, convicts whose rights the Mexican government says were violated when they were not put in touch with consular officials
- MARCH 31, 2004VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Mitchell Orbe was executed by injection tonight at...
Mitchell Orbe was executed by injection tonight at Greensville Correctional Center for the Jan
- MARCH 31, 2004SudanDEATH PENALTY
Nyala Criminal Court sentenced two men to death by...
Nyala Criminal Court sentenced two men to death by hanging under articles 130 and 175 of the 1991 Penal Code
- MARCH 31, 2004DEATH PENALTY
THE HAGUE. ICJ RULES US MUST REVIEW CASES OF 51 MEXICANS ON DEATH ROW
March 31, 2004: the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the United States to "review and reconsider" the cases of 51 Mexicans on death row in US prisons.
- MARCH 30, 2004MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohamad Sofri Che Ani, was sentenced to death by the...
Mohamad Sofri Che Ani, was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court for trafficking in 3,632gm of cannabis
- MARCH 30, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
Tomoyuki Furusawa was sentenced to death by the Yokohama...
Tomoyuki Furusawa was sentenced to death by the Yokohama District Court, Japan, after being convicted of murder and illegal confinement
- MARCH 30, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Idris Mia, 35, was sentenced to death and...
Mohammad Idris Mia, 35, was sentenced to death and nine others to various terms imprisonment by a Speedy Trial Tribunal in Chittagong, Bangladesh, after they were convicted of murder
- MARCH 30, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced Tofael Ahmed...
A court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced Tofael Ahmed Joshep, 35, and Tariq Sayeef alias Mamun, 30, to death and four others to life imprisonment for shooting an activist of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist
- MARCH 30, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tangail, Bangladesh, sentenced nine people...
A court in Tangail, Bangladesh, sentenced nine people to death and one man to life imprisonment after convicting them of murder
- MARCH 30, 2004Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar agreed to review death sentences handed to...
Myanmar agreed to review death sentences handed to three men over contacts with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), saying the court's decision was flawed, the ILO said
- MARCH 30, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
U.K. Venugopal was sentenced to death by a fast track...
U.K. Venugopal was sentenced to death by a fast track court in Manjeri, India, after being found guilty of murdering his employer
- MARCH 30, 2004OhioDEATH PENALTY
In the Southern Ohio Correctional near Lucasville,...
In the Southern Ohio Correctional near Lucasville, William Dean Wicklines was executed today
- MARCH 30, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In South Carolina, where inmates can choose between...
In South Carolina, where inmates can choose between lethal injection and electrocution, Jason Scott Byram has chosen to be electrocuted by the state Corrections Department on April 23
- MARCH 30, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar agreed to review death sentences handed to...
Myanmar agreed to review death sentences handed to three men over contacts with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), saying the court's decision was flawed, the ILO said
- MARCH 29, 2004Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Papua New Guinea was looking at the possibility of...
Papua New Guinea was looking at the possibility of adopting death penalty laws used in Singapore
- MARCH 29, 2004Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Ben Simakot, convicted of raping a mother and then...
Ben Simakot, convicted of raping a mother and then bludgeoned her and her two-year-old son to death with an iron bar, was sentenced to death in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea
- MARCH 29, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Ilyas Sheikh, 30, was sentenced to death in absentia...
Ilyas Sheikh, 30, was sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Bagerhat, Bangladesh, for killing his elder brother at Chandipur in the Moralganj district
- MARCH 29, 2004Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Three people in Myanmar were convicted of high treason...
Three people in Myanmar were convicted of high treason and sentenced to death for having contacts with the UN's International Labor Organization, according to the ILO
- MARCH 29, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted and sentenced...
A court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted and sentenced to death Zulfiqar Ali for fatally shooting two police officers outside the US consulate in Karachi
- MARCH 28, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saddam Hussein will hang, the British envoy to Iraq,...
Saddam Hussein will hang, the British envoy to Iraq, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, predicted as he left the country
- MARCH 28, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The need for abolishing the death penalty was emphasised...
The need for abolishing the death penalty was emphasised at a meeting organised by the Society for Community Organisation Trust (SOCO)
- MARCH 28, 2004CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
The oldest person on death row in California, Raymond...
The oldest person on death row in California, Raymond Fredrick Johns, died of natural causes Sunday morning, said Vernell Crittendon, spokesman for San Quentin State Prison
- MARCH 27, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Madras High Court, India, commuted the death sentence...
The Madras High Court, India, commuted the death sentence of 32 year old Marimuthu into life imprisonment
- MARCH 27, 2004DEATH PENALTY
BHUTAN. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ABOLISHED
March 27, 2004: it was reported by BBC Monitoring South Asia that on March 20 the King of Bhutan issued a royal decree abolishing capital punishment in the kingdom