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- AUGUST 23, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged 10 drug smugglers and armed robbers in...
Iran hanged 10 drug smugglers and armed robbers in the southern province of Kerman, the conservative Jam-e Jam newspaper reported
- AUGUST 22, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
William Quentin Jones, 34, was executed today
William Quentin Jones, 34, was executed today
- AUGUST 22, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mashari bin Omair al-Shahrani, a Saudi national, was...
Mashari bin Omair al-Shahrani, a Saudi national, was beheaded for stabbing his father to death inside a mosque
- AUGUST 22, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Duong Duc Son, Phung Mai Khoi, Chiem Van Beo, Le Tung...
Duong Duc Son, Phung Mai Khoi, Chiem Van Beo, Le Tung Lam and Vu Thi Tien, a woman, were sentenced to death by the Ha Tinh People's Court for running a drug-trafficking network that smuggled heroin and opium into the country from Laos
- AUGUST 22, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
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- AUGUST 21, 2003MaliDEATH PENALTY
During a live radio program conducted in Rome on Radio...
During a live radio program conducted in Rome on Radio Radicale, Demba Traore, vice President of the Mali Justice Commission, gave assurances that Mali would vote in favour of a resolution for a moratorium on capital executions at the UN General Assembly
- AUGUST 21, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Thalassery Additional District and Sessions Court...
The Thalassery Additional District and Sessions Court awarded death sentences to five CPM activists for the murder of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Vice-president K T Jayakrishnan in 1999
- AUGUST 21, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
The Florida Supreme Court unanimously reinstated the...
The Florida Supreme Court unanimously reinstated the death sentence given to Thomas Knight for fatally stabbing a guard in 1980
- AUGUST 21, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranian men were hanged in prison in Karaj, western...
Three Iranian men were hanged in prison in Karaj, western Tehran, for drug trafficking, a government-sponsored daily reported
- AUGUST 20, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two employees of the state-owned China Construction...
Two employees of the state-owned China Construction Bank were sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court in Xi'an after being found guilty of embezzling 412 million yuan, the China Daily said
- AUGUST 20, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Two brothers, Sagar and Swapan, were sentenced to death...
Two brothers, Sagar and Swapan, were sentenced to death in Bangladesh, the latter in absentia, for shooting dead a man inside mosque
- AUGUST 20, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Shanghai court sentenced to death Huang Ligang, 22,...
A Shanghai court sentenced to death Huang Ligang, 22, and Cheng Liang, 19, after convicting them of stabbing to death Soong Yu, 40, a Taiwan businessman living in the city, the Shanghai Daily reported
- AUGUST 20, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced Mohammad...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced Mohammad Attaullah and Mohammad Azam, two members of the banned Sunni Muslim extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), to death for the murder of six Shiites
- AUGUST 20, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Apparently alarmed at deteriorating law and order in...
Apparently alarmed at deteriorating law and order in Georgia, the country's president publicly expressed his regret at being forced into abolishing the death penalty
- AUGUST 20, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
"The argument for capital punishment against terrorists...
"The argument for capital punishment against terrorists fails on three counts," said The Australian daily newspaper
- AUGUST 20, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Phan Ngoc Hanh, a 37 year old director and owner of...
Phan Ngoc Hanh, a 37 year old director and owner of the Dong Nai Company, a water bottling operation, was given the death penalty by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court
- AUGUST 19, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh Justice Minister Onalsyn Zhumabekov said the...
Kazakh Justice Minister Onalsyn Zhumabekov said the government planned to replace the death penalty with life imprisonment as of January 1, 2004
- AUGUST 19, 2003DEATH PENALTY
August 19, 2002, the Indiana Supreme Court vacated...
August 19, 2002, the Indiana Supreme Court vacated Amy Bostick's three sentences of life without parole
- AUGUST 19, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
A statement from the Kerman province judiciary said...
A statement from the Kerman province judiciary said that "Mohammad-Zaman-Q
- AUGUST 19, 2003MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
A Moroccan criminal court sentenced four Islamic activists...
A Moroccan criminal court sentenced four Islamic activists to death and dozens of others to heavy jail terms for suicide bomb attacks that killed 45 people in the city of Casablanca in May 2003
- AUGUST 19, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Masaka, Uganda, presided over by...
The High Court in Masaka, Uganda, presided over by Justice Elidad Mwangusya, sentenced Rogers Lutalemwa to death for killing his two-year-old son on July 27, 2003
- AUGUST 19, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian Islamic appeal court quashed the conviction...
A Nigerian Islamic appeal court quashed the conviction of Had Sarimu Mohammed, a 55-year-old peasant farmer who had been sentenced to be stoned to death for the rape of a nine-year-old girl
- AUGUST 19, 2003JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
"The last polls show about 82% in favour of the death...
"The last polls show about 82% in favour of the death penalty, even though there is no more evidence here than anywhere else that it acts as a deterrent," said Nancy Anderson, a defence attorney and activist with the Independent Jamaica Council for Human
- AUGUST 19, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Federal Liberal MP Alby Schultz said he had no doubt...
Federal Liberal MP Alby Schultz said he had no doubt Australia would again adopt the death penalty if the decision was left up to voters
- AUGUST 19, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
A Newspoll published in The Australian found that 56...
A Newspoll published in The Australian found that 56 per cent of respondents want the death sentence reintroduced for barbaric acts of terrorism
- AUGUST 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhang Ping to death penalty for murder and gave his ex-wife Shao Yuying seven years in prison for being an accomplice
- AUGUST 18, 2003AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
"Some people have said that the death penalty should...
"Some people have said that the death penalty should be reintroduced," said Nard Ndoka, leader of the Assembly group of the Democrat Party during an interview on Albanian radio
- AUGUST 17, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Jail authorities in the eastern Indian state of Orissa...
Jail authorities in the eastern Indian state of Orissa suspended their search for a hangman after the death sentence of Dayanidhi Bishnoi, 35, was commuted to life imprisonment
- AUGUST 17, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
According to Jordan Times, the Criminal Court sentenced...
According to Jordan Times, the Criminal Court sentenced two brothers to 10 years in prison after convicting them of killing their married 23-year-old sister by driving over her with a water tanker in South Shouneh in December 2002
- AUGUST 16, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The high court in Liaoning province, China, gave former...
The high court in Liaoning province, China, gave former legislator Liu Rong a two-year reprieve on the death sentence handed down to him in April 2002 for involvement in the affair in Shenyang city, Xinhua news agency said