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- MARCH 21, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please...
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please don't hang him, please," Kim Nguyen sobbed moments after a High Court judge in Singapore ordered the execution of 23-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van
- MARCH 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please...
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please don't hang him, please," Kim Nguyen sobbed moments after a High Court judge in Singapore ordered the execution of 23-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van
- MARCH 21, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Upper Sharia Court in Bauchi State, Nigeria, overturned...
The Upper Sharia Court in Bauchi State, Nigeria, overturned the conviction of Jibrin Babaji, a 23-year-old man who had been sentenced to be stoned to death for molesting three young boys
- MARCH 20, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne,...
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne, Australia, was sentenced to death after the Singapore High Court found him guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin
- MARCH 20, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne,...
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne, Australia, was sentenced to death after the Singapore High Court found him guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin
- MARCH 20, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
A jury that earlier this week found Guy Allen guilty...
A jury that earlier this week found Guy Allen guilty of the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her daughter decided he should die for his crime
- MARCH 20, 2004BhutanDEATH PENALTY
The King of Bhutan issued a royal decree abolishing...
The King of Bhutan issued a royal decree abolishing capital punishment in the kingdom
- MARCH 20, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Slalhuddin Tipu and Abdul Jabber Labu were sentenced...
Slalhuddin Tipu and Abdul Jabber Labu were sentenced to death and five others were awarded life imprisonment by a speedy trial tribunal in Chittagong, Banlgadesh, for the murder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Kamaluddin
- MARCH 19, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging...
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging in Changi Prison, Singapore, after being convicted of stabbing roommate and colleague Wang Hong to death after a violent quarrel at a restaurant on February 4, 2002
- MARCH 19, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Luong Van Thanh, 22, and Nguyen Van Hoa, 48, were executed...
Luong Van Thanh, 22, and Nguyen Van Hoa, 48, were executed at dawn by firing squad at Hanoi's Cau Nga, Vietnam, for drug trafficking
- MARCH 19, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging...
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging in Changi Prison, Singapore, after being convicted of stabbing roommate and colleague Wang Hong to death after a violent quarrel at a restaurant on February 4, 2002
- MARCH 19, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore authorities hanged Yen May Woen, a 37 year...
Singapore authorities hanged Yen May Woen, a 37 year old woman convicted of heroin trafficking, in the city-state's first drug execution in 2004
- MARCH 19, 2004Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions...
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) strongly condemned the Burmese authorities for the 28 November 2003 sentencing to death of 9 Burmese workers on charges of high treason
- MARCH 19, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wang Baosheng, 50, Lu Wenlin and Wu Zhijun were sentenced...
Wang Baosheng, 50, Lu Wenlin and Wu Zhijun were sentenced to death by the No 1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing on charges of voluntary manslaughter and forging value-added invoices
- MARCH 19, 2004KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
The Aksy District court in Kyrgyzstan's southwestern...
The Aksy District court in Kyrgyzstan's southwestern Dzhalal-Abad Region sentenced Dayyrbek Batyrbekov to death and his brother, Kasymbek Batyrbekov, to 22 years in prison for killing a policeman
- MARCH 19, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Jurors recommended to a Pinellas-Pasco circuit court...
Jurors recommended to a Pinellas-Pasco circuit court judge that Troy Merck jr
- MARCH 19, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In Columbia, at the Capital Punishment Facility at...
In Columbia, at the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution, David Clayton Hill died by lethal injection
- MARCH 18, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wang Daohua, Yin Yaxiong, Zhu Zhongfa and Zheng Qiukang,...
Wang Daohua, Yin Yaxiong, Zhu Zhongfa and Zheng Qiukang, four convicted drug traffickers, were executed and Wang Yan, another member of the gang, was given a suspended death sentence on March 17 in Jinhua City of east China's Zhejiang Province
- MARCH 18, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam, which has been criticised by some human rights...
Vietnam, which has been criticised by some human rights groups for its use of capital punishment, agreed to host a meeting on the issue, visiting British Minister of State Mike O'Brien said
- MARCH 18, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Huu Nghia, 27, and Pham Van Quoc Vinh, 26, were...
Nguyen Huu Nghia, 27, and Pham Van Quoc Vinh, 26, were executed by firing squad at dawn in Vietnam's southern business capital of Ho Chi Minh City for murder and armed robbery
- MARCH 18, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Aysha Akhtar, a 35 year old female and her brother-in-law...
Aysha Akhtar, a 35 year old female and her brother-in-law Shahidul Islam, 30, were sentenced to death by a court in Dhaka, Bangladesh for killing her two minor boys to eliminate witnesses to their illicit affair
- MARCH 18, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Jamal Hossain alias Jamal Shikder, 35, was sentenced...
Jamal Hossain alias Jamal Shikder, 35, was sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, after being found guilty of strangulating his wife Nazma Begum to death on December 25, 2000 following a family feud
- MARCH 18, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Zhong Zubin and Tang Shangming,...
It was reported that Zhong Zubin and Tang Shangming, two Chinese men, were sentenced to death in Beihai City of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for smuggling heroin
- MARCH 18, 2004LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
A Jefferson Parish jury decided that Christopher Arceneaux...
A Jefferson Parish jury decided that Christopher Arceneaux should be put to death
- MARCH 18, 2004MichiganDEATH PENALTY
In Lansing, the Michigan House failed to get enough...
In Lansing, the Michigan House failed to get enough votes to put a measure eliminating the state's 158-year-old death penalty ban on the November ballot
- MARCH 18, 2004VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Brian Lee Cherrix, 30, volunteer, convicted of killing...
Brian Lee Cherrix, 30, volunteer, convicted of killing 23-year-old Tessa Van Hart in 1994, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center at 9:10 p
- MARCH 18, 2004YemenDEATH PENALTY
a man named Abdullah Ali al-Nashiri was executed in Yemen for murder
a man named Abdullah Ali al-Nashiri was executed in Yemen for murder
- MARCH 17, 2004GermanyDEATH PENALTY
During his state visit to Nigeria, German President...
During his state visit to Nigeria, German President Johannes Rau criticised the fact that Islamic law was applied in the north of the country
- MARCH 17, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The people's court in northern Haiphong City, Vietnam,...
The people's court in northern Haiphong City, Vietnam, sentenced to death Tran Thi Bach Diep, a 42 year old woman and gave life imprisonment to a man and a woman for running a drug trafficking ring that was uncovered in October 2002
- MARCH 17, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
During his state visit to Nigeria, German President...
During his state visit to Nigeria, German President Johannes Rau criticised the fact that Islamic law was applied in the north of the country