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- OCTOBER 10, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tong Thanh Thao, 28, and Pham Nhat Tri, 32, were executed...
Tong Thanh Thao, 28, and Pham Nhat Tri, 32, were executed by firing squad in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, on the Thu Duc killing fields, for beating to death another prisoner in October 1995
- OCTOBER 10, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
According to Ugandan Prison authorities, inmates on...
According to Ugandan Prison authorities, inmates on death row numbered more than 400
- OCTOBER 10, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Lahu Dhekane was sentenced to death by an Additional...
Lahu Dhekane was sentenced to death by an Additional and Sessions Court in Pune, India, for the 4 July 2003 abduction, and eventual murder, of Amit Sonawane, 13, from Nira
- OCTOBER 10, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged Thailand to abolish the...
Amnesty International urged Thailand to abolish the death penalty and said its October 19, 2003 switch to execution by lethal injection instead of firing squad did not change the "inhumanity" of the penalty
- OCTOBER 10, 2003NorwayDEATH PENALTY
The World Day against the Death Penalty is being arranged...
The World Day against the Death Penalty is being arranged for the first time on 10 October 2003 on the initiative of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, an international coalition of human rights organisations
- OCTOBER 10, 2003AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
On the occasion of the International Day Against Death...
On the occasion of the International Day Against Death Penalty, the Albanian Committee of Helsinki (KSHH) reiterated that capital punishment was not and could not be a determinative factor in crime prevention and appealed to public opinion to say "Stop" t
- OCTOBER 10, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
School teacher Wang Furong was sentenced to death for...
School teacher Wang Furong was sentenced to death for raping five young pupils and molesting other children at a rural school in northern China's Shaanxi province
- OCTOBER 10, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged people around the world...
Amnesty International urged people around the world to pressure countries to abolish the death penalty
- OCTOBER 9, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court sentenced Mohammad Ali Firouzi, a...
An Iranian court sentenced Mohammad Ali Firouzi, a 34 year old man convicted of serial raping children, to eight death sentences and 173 lashes, the judge in charge of the case said
- OCTOBER 9, 2003BrazilDEATH PENALTY
A Brazilian man shot dead after testifying before a...
A Brazilian man shot dead after testifying before a UN envoy on police-sanctioned death squads in Brazil, became the second such witness killed in two weeks, police said
- OCTOBER 8, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
See under 'The Death Penalty For Violent Crimes' of...
See under 'The Death Penalty For Violent Crimes' of the same date
- OCTOBER 8, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Zinat al-Sadat, a 34 year old nurse convicted of murder,...
Zinat al-Sadat, a 34 year old nurse convicted of murder, was executed by hanging in a Tehran prison, the Etemad newspaper reported
- OCTOBER 8, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of...
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of murdering a friend in January 2001 over a loan reimbursement, were executed at dawn at the Swaqa prison south of Amman, Jordan
- OCTOBER 8, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of...
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of murdering a friend in January 2001 over a loan reimbursement, were executed at dawn at the Swaqa prison south of Amman, Jordan
- OCTOBER 8, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Enrico Buemi, MP (SDI - Italian Social Democrats) and...
Enrico Buemi, MP (SDI - Italian Social Democrats) and Hands Off Cain member, deposited an urgent parliamentary question at the Chamber of Deputies, addressed to Foreign Minister Frattini and signed by 50 MPs from all sides, asking the government to inform
- OCTOBER 8, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Judge Bob Gill sentenced Billy Jack Crutsinger, 48, White, to death
USA - Texas. Judge Bob Gill sentenced Billy Jack Crutsinger, 48, White, to death
- OCTOBER 7, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Khan Waley ben Sayed Mir Jan, a Pakistani national,...
Khan Waley ben Sayed Mir Jan, a Pakistani national, was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia's city of Jeddah
- OCTOBER 7, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Khan Waley ben Sayed Mir Jan, a Pakistani national,...
Khan Waley ben Sayed Mir Jan, a Pakistani national, was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia's city of Jeddah
- OCTOBER 7, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Lo Van Tuoi, a 39 year old man from Lai Chau province,...
Lo Van Tuoi, a 39 year old man from Lai Chau province, Vietnam, was sentenced to death for trafficking heroin from Laos and China
- OCTOBER 7, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Nigerian Party for Social Democracy (PSD) commended...
The Nigerian Party for Social Democracy (PSD) commended the recent decision to acquit Amina Lawal of her adultery conviction
- OCTOBER 7, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Life In Prison Ruling Affirmed For 2 Death Penalty...
Life In Prison Ruling Affirmed For 2 Death Penalty Inmates---U
- OCTOBER 7, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Life In Prison Ruling Affirmed For 2 Death Penalty...
Life In Prison Ruling Affirmed For 2 Death Penalty Inmates---U
- OCTOBER 6, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Seven prisoners on death row in Vietnam had their sentences...
Seven prisoners on death row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by President Tran Duc Luong
- OCTOBER 6, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh TV's first channel reported that the West Kazakhstan...
Kazakh TV's first channel reported that the West Kazakhstan Regional court had sentenced a Russian citizen to death for killing four people
- OCTOBER 6, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh TV's first channel reported that the West Kazakhstan...
Kazakh TV's first channel reported that the West Kazakhstan Regional court had sentenced a Russian citizen to death for killing four people
- OCTOBER 6, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Four members of a criminal gang were sentenced to death...
Four members of a criminal gang were sentenced to death by the Karaganda Regional court in Kazakhstan after being found guilty of murdering five lorry drivers between February and June 2002
- OCTOBER 6, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Inflicting the death penalty was the ultimate acknowledgement...
Inflicting the death penalty was the ultimate acknowledgement of the failure of civilisation, Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby said
- OCTOBER 6, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Convicted murderers with severe mental health problems...
Convicted murderers with severe mental health problems can be forced to take drugs that would make them clinically sane so that they can be executed, the US supreme court has ruled
- OCTOBER 6, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
At a press briefing in Brussels given to promote "World...
At a press briefing in Brussels given to promote "World Day against the Death Penalty" on October 10, the European Commission reaffirmed its opposition to the death penalty
- OCTOBER 6, 2003ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
The Connecticut Supreme Court threw out a death sentence...
The Connecticut Supreme Court threw out a death sentence for the bludgeoning of a 13-year-old boy, and clarified the standard jurors must meet before calling for capital punishment, was an 18-year-old ex-Marine at the time