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- OCTOBER 29, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
M. Kathavarayan, 54, was sentenced to death by the...
M. Kathavarayan, 54, was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court for trafficking 937.8g of cannabis
- OCTOBER 29, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo District Court, Japan, sentenced Tomomasa...
The Tokyo District Court, Japan, sentenced Tomomasa Nakagawa, a senior figure of the Aum Supreme Truth cult, to death for multiple murder in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack and 10 other crimes
- OCTOBER 29, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he rejected...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he rejected Islamic criminal laws prescribing amputations and death by stoning introduced by the hardline Islamic Party in the country's north-eastern Terengganu state
- OCTOBER 29, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taipei Minister without Portfolio Hsu Chih-hsiung said...
Taipei Minister without Portfolio Hsu Chih-hsiung said that an anti-terrorism law approved by the country's Cabinet that included the death penalty did not contradict the government's goal of abolishing executions
- OCTOBER 29, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism law envisaging the death penalty...
An anti-terrorism law envisaging the death penalty was approved by the Taipei Cabinet
- OCTOBER 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Thanh Tuan, a 40 year old man who pretended to...
Pham Thanh Tuan, a 40 year old man who pretended to be a doctor of traditional medicine, was executed in southern Vietnam for fatally poisoning four people and robbing them
- OCTOBER 29, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Delhi High court, India, acquitted two people originally...
The Delhi High court, India, acquitted two people originally sentenced to death in the December 13, 2001, terrorist attack on Parliament, lecturer Sayed Abdul Rahman Geelani and Afsan Guru, a woman
- OCTOBER 29, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
John Clayton Smith, 42, was put to death by injection...
John Clayton Smith, 42, was put to death by injection at the Potosi Correctional Center in the July 5, 1997 fatal stabbings of his former girlfriend, Brandie Kearns, 22, and her stepfather, Wayne Hoewing, 51
- OCTOBER 29, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged the European Union to rethink...
Amnesty International urged the European Union to rethink its China policy, saying the Asian country's economic success overshadows a justice system plagued with human rights abuses
- OCTOBER 28, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Since independence in 1945, Indonesian courts had sentenced...
Since independence in 1945, Indonesian courts had sentenced a total of 70 people to death with 11 of them already executed, an Attorny General's Office (AGO) spokesman said
- OCTOBER 28, 2003KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
The Kuwaiti Court of Appeals court commuted to life...
The Kuwaiti Court of Appeals court commuted to life in prison the death sentence against Sami al-Mutairi, a 25 year old Kuwaiti who killed an American civilian and wounded another in a highway ambush in January 2003
- OCTOBER 28, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Huu Hau, 23, was sentenced to death in southern...
Nguyen Huu Hau, 23, was sentenced to death in southern Vietnam for killing a 16-year-old girl after she repeatedly spurned his advances
- OCTOBER 28, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Qineng, an official convicted in what was called...
Hu Qineng, an official convicted in what was called the biggest corruption case in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, was executed for embezzlement
- OCTOBER 28, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is an effective form of punishment...
The death penalty is an effective form of punishment and should not abolished, said one of Lebanon's leading magistrates, Ghassan Rabah
- OCTOBER 28, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's reformist parliament accused the hardline judiciary...
Iran's reformist parliament accused the hardline judiciary of a cover-up in the case of the Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died in July 2003 from a blow to the head while in custody
- OCTOBER 28, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
George Kelly, hanged in the UK for murder was the victim...
George Kelly, hanged in the UK for murder was the victim of a miscarriage of justice which must be "deeply regretted", the Court of Appeal said
- OCTOBER 28, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
The state Supreme Court lifts 3 more death sentences
The state Supreme Court lifts 3 more death sentences
- OCTOBER 27, 2003ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
A Zambian High Court sentenced Felix Mulela, a Christian...
A Zambian High Court sentenced Felix Mulela, a Christian church pastor, and his wife, Sharon Mulela, to death by hanging after finding them guilty of killing their domestic worker, Sara Soko, in 2000
- 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, 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