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- OCTOBER 27, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Wang Jie, a 29-year-old woman, to death and fined her 150,000 yuan (US$ 18,072) for murder, fraud and theft
- OCTOBER 27, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced a man named...
A court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced a man named only as Borhanuddin to death in absentia for killing his father in 1998
- OCTOBER 27, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan's government was drafting legislation to abolish...
Taiwan's government was drafting legislation to abolish the death penalty, an unnamed cabinet official was reported as saying
- OCTOBER 27, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Khaleque was sentenced to death by a special...
Abdul Khaleque was sentenced to death by a special tribunal court in Bangladesh for killing his wife
- OCTOBER 27, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Sun Chaoyue to death, with two-year probation, for drug trafficking and illegally selling, transporting and possessing guns
- OCTOBER 27, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
A man sentenced to death over 20 years ago for killing...
A man sentenced to death over 20 years ago for killing a woman has been given a new prison sentence
- OCTOBER 26, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Abdus Salam, a Bangladeshi police constable, was sentenced...
Abdus Salam, a Bangladeshi police constable, was sentenced to death in absentia for shooting dead a female cook at his camp who refused his advances
- OCTOBER 26, 2003BrazilDEATH PENALTY
A government study concluded that death squads operated...
A government study concluded that death squads operated in 15 of Brazil's 26 states
- OCTOBER 25, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
A court in Chad sentenced four men to death for the...
A court in Chad sentenced four men to death for the murder of Sudanese businessman Acheik Ibni Oumar Idriss Youssouf, who headed the Chad Petroleum company
- OCTOBER 25, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An unidentified man was hanged in Iran's south-western...
An unidentified man was hanged in Iran's south-western city of Shiraz for murdering a police officer during an armed robbery in 2002, the Javan newspaper quoted police as saying
- OCTOBER 25, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An unidentified man aged 29 was publicly executed for...
An unidentified man aged 29 was publicly executed for murder in a square in Zahedan, in southeastern Sistan-e-Baluchistan province, Iran, the Entekhab newspaper quoted police as saying, without providing further details
- OCTOBER 24, 2003DEATH PENALTY
October 24, 2002 Florida supreme court rejected Bottoson's...
October 24, 2002 Florida supreme court rejected Bottoson's and King's appeals, ruling that the state statute was constitutional despite the decision in Ring
- OCTOBER 24, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Tangerang District Court, Indonesia, sentenced...
The Tangerang District Court, Indonesia, sentenced to death two Nigerian nationals and fined them Rp 500 million (US$58,823) for violating Article 82 of Law No
- OCTOBER 24, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Tangerang District Court, Indonesia, sentenced...
The Tangerang District Court, Indonesia, sentenced to death two Nigerian nationals and fined them Rp 500 million (US$58,823) for violating Article 82 of Law No
- OCTOBER 24, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dang Xuan Hai and Tran Van Thuong, both aged 38, were...
Dang Xuan Hai and Tran Van Thuong, both aged 38, were put to death by firing squad at dawn in the Vietnamese capital's Cau Nga execution site
- OCTOBER 24, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ujimamadi Abbas, a Uighur Muslim leader who campaigned...
Ujimamadi Abbas, a Uighur Muslim leader who campaigned for the establishment of an East Turkestan state, was executed in Xinjiang, the South China Morning Post reported
- OCTOBER 24, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Two drug traffickers on death-row in Vietnam had their...
Two drug traffickers on death-row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by President Tran Duc Luong, state media said
- OCTOBER 23, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four drug traffickers were executed in Vietnam's northern...
Four drug traffickers were executed in Vietnam's northern province of Thanh Hoa
- OCTOBER 23, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian daily newspaper, Qods, reported that a...
The Iranian daily newspaper, Qods, reported that a member of a gang found guilty of rape was hanged in a prison in the Iranian city of Mashhad
- OCTOBER 23, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian court sentenced Ian Millar, a 54 year old...
A Nigerian court sentenced Ian Millar, a 54 year old British businessman, to death by hanging for murdering his 43-year-old partner Anne Marie Gale, on April 12, 2002, in their home in Lagos
- OCTOBER 23, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian court sentenced Ian Millar, a 54 year old...
A Nigerian court sentenced Ian Millar, a 54 year old British businessman, to death by hanging for murdering his 43-year-old partner Anne Marie Gale, on April 12, 2002, in their home in Lagos
- OCTOBER 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Speedy Trial Tribunal of Chittagong, Bangladesh,...
The Speedy Trial Tribunal of Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Mohammed Akram Hossain, alias Ripon, and Jamal Hossain on charges of killing a teenage girl after raping her
- OCTOBER 23, 2003North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
"The Hidden Gulag - Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps",...
"The Hidden Gulag - Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps", a report by the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said that close to 200,000 political prisoners worked in conditions of slave labour and near-starvation in dozens of secret prison camp
- OCTOBER 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Women and Children Repression Control Tribunal in...
A Women and Children Repression Control Tribunal in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced Mohammed Sekender to death for killing his wife for dowry in 1997
- OCTOBER 23, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
According to Jordan Times, two brothers, convicted...
According to Jordan Times, two brothers, convicted of the premeditated murder of a Jerash man in October 2001, were executed at Swaqa prison
- OCTOBER 23, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
An Ohio prisoner convicted of strangling his cellmate...
An Ohio prisoner convicted of strangling his cellmate has been sentenced to execution
- OCTOBER 23, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italian Minister Frattini intervened with his EU counterparts...
Italian Minister Frattini intervened with his EU counterparts to press for a common EU position on the presentation by the EU of a resolution for a UN moratorium on executions
- OCTOBER 23, 2003DEATH PENALTY
After the European Parliament approved a resolution...
After the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for an initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty at the UN, Marco Pannella, MEP and Hands Off Cain President, declared: "It's time that President Frattini affirms convic
- OCTOBER 23, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italian Minister Frattini intervened with his EU counterparts...
Italian Minister Frattini intervened with his EU counterparts to press for a common EU position on the presentation by the EU of a resolution for a UN moratorium on executions
- OCTOBER 23, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament unanimously approved a second...
The European Parliament unanimously approved a second resolution calling for an initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty at the UN