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- 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, 2003ColoradoDEATH PENALTY
Life In Prison Ruling Affirmed For 2 Death Penalty...
Life In Prison Ruling Affirmed For 2 Death Penalty Inmates---U
- OCTOBER 7, 2003United StatesDEATH 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, 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
- OCTOBER 6, 2003OhioDEATH 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 5, 2003South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Angel Joe Pierre Vasquez, 24, was convicted Wednesday...
Angel Joe Pierre Vasquez, 24, was convicted Wednesday by the same jury of 2 counts of murder, 4 counts of kidnapping and 1 count each of armed robbery and conspiracy in the March 2002 shooting deaths of Kuma Walker, 19, and Joseph J
- OCTOBER 5, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man identified as Mohammad A
An Iranian man identified as Mohammad A
- OCTOBER 4, 2003KentuckyDEATH PENALTY
Sammy Fields, 31, was convicted of murder and first-degree...
Sammy Fields, 31, was convicted of murder and first-degree burglary Wednesday in a retrial
- OCTOBER 4, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr
Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr
- OCTOBER 4, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Sessions Judge Court in...
The Additional District and Sessions Judge Court in Sylhet, Bangladesh, sentenced six people to death and one to life imprisonment in two separate murder cases
- OCTOBER 3, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Edward Hartman, 38, was executed by injection at Central...
Edward Hartman, 38, was executed by injection at Central Prison in Raleigh
- OCTOBER 3, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Ugandan security agents...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Ugandan security agents of carrying out the extra-judicial killing of four men they detained in August 2003, a charge denied by the military
- OCTOBER 3, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Singapore prison officials hanged Arunprakash Vaithilingam,...
Singapore prison officials hanged Arunprakash Vaithilingam, 25, an Indian immigrant worker, for the murder of a flat mate on 22 December 2001
- OCTOBER 3, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine officials rejected criticism by the human...
Philippine officials rejected criticism by the human rights group Amnesty International (AI) that Manila had put minors on death row
- OCTOBER 3, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A poll by Internet portal Yahoo showed that majority...
A poll by Internet portal Yahoo showed that majority of Singaporeans support the death penalty
- OCTOBER 3, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Shafiq, Arshad Ali and Muhammad Sarwar, alias...
Muhammad Shafiq, Arshad Ali and Muhammad Sarwar, alias Taina, were sentenced to death by an Additional Sessions Court in Pakistan after being convicted of raping a newly wed woman
- OCTOBER 3, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore prison officials hanged Arunprakash Vaithilingam,...
Singapore prison officials hanged Arunprakash Vaithilingam, 25, an Indian immigrant worker, for the murder of a flat mate on 22 December 2001