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- JUNE 24, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajik television reported that Tajikistan's Supreme...
Tajik television reported that Tajikistan's Supreme Court had passed sentences on five citizens who had committed "a number of grave crimes," and sentenced to death two of them for the "violent murder of citizen Rahmatullo Rahimov"
- JUNE 24, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Liuzhou Intermediate People's Court, in the Guangxi...
The Liuzhou Intermediate People's Court, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, executed Liao Quanen, 40, and Wei Degui, 46, for drug trafficking
- JUNE 24, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shaoguan Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong...
The Shaoguan Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong Province, sentenced Huang Jianwen to death for trafficking and transporting drugs
- JUNE 24, 2003DEATH PENALTY
HOC ON A MISSION TO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO TO MEET KABILA
June 24, 2003: Hands Off Cain will be in the country between the 26th and the 29th of June in order to ask President Joseph Kabila to grant clemency to the 30 men condemned to death for the assassination of his father Laurent Kabila
- JUNE 23, 2003FranceDEATH PENALTY
Iran insisted that it wanted France to extradite members...
Iran insisted that it wanted France to extradite members of an armed opposition group arrested in a major roundup of the exile organisation
- JUNE 23, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran insisted that it wanted France to extradite members...
Iran insisted that it wanted France to extradite members of an armed opposition group arrested in a major roundup of the exile organisation
- JUNE 23, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
A Harris County jury condemned Danny Paul Bible, 51,...
A Harris County jury condemned Danny Paul Bible, 51, to death for the 1979 rape-slaying of Inez Deaton, 20
- JUNE 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Speedy Trail Tribunal in Bangladesh convicted three...
A Speedy Trail Tribunal in Bangladesh convicted three young men, sentencing Sumon, 20, to death and handing life terms to two others for rape case
- JUNE 23, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A district court in India sentenced to death Surendrapal...
A district court in India sentenced to death Surendrapal Shivpal, who was arrested on charges of raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl in September 2002
- JUNE 23, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
"Kazakhstan will definitely have life sentences
"Kazakhstan will definitely have life sentences
- JUNE 23, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
David Charles Carpenter, 41, who twice was sentenced...
David Charles Carpenter, 41, who twice was sentenced to death will now remain in prison for life without parole
- JUNE 22, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi Arabian man was beheaded after being convicted...
A Saudi Arabian man was beheaded after being convicted of beating to death a compatriot in a dispute over a plot of farm land
- JUNE 21, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
L. Achour, alias Salah, current commander of the Salafi...
L. Achour, alias Salah, current commander of the Salafi Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), was sentenced to death in absentia by the criminal court in Constantine, Algeria, the Algerian daily El-Khabar's website reported. He was accused of belonging to an
- JUNE 21, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Cai Gang, an unemployed Chinese man who burned his...
Cai Gang, an unemployed Chinese man who burned his daughter alive to get her life insurance, was sentenced to death
- JUNE 21, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Commission on Missing Persons and Victims of Violence...
The Commission on Missing Persons and Victims of Violence said that as of June 18 a total of 176 civilians in 12 districts in Aceh had become victims of "extrajudicial killings" during Indonesia's military offensive against separatist rebels in the provin
- JUNE 20, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a prominent jurist sitting...
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a prominent jurist sitting on both the Guardians Council and Expediency Council, Iran's two top political oversight bodies, called on Iran's hard-line judiciary to treat "rioters" arrested during 10 nights of anti-regime protests
- JUNE 20, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Isnin Saleh, 33, Azman Ismail, 35, and Ruzaini...
Mohamed Isnin Saleh, 33, Azman Ismail, 35, and Ruzaini Ajis, 32, all Singaporeans, were executed by hanging
- JUNE 20, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Beijing appeal court upheld a suspended death sentence...
A Beijing appeal court upheld a suspended death sentence for former governor of southwest China's Yunnan province, Li Jiating, who was convicted of corruption
- JUNE 20, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Judge...
The Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Sarwar Sidhu awarded a death sentence each with a fine of Rs
- JUNE 20, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Gulzar Rawal, 35, was hanged at in Central Jail in...
Gulzar Rawal, 35, was hanged at in Central Jail in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
- JUNE 19, 2003Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
The Southern Regional High Court of Sierra Leone in...
The Southern Regional High Court of Sierra Leone in Bo District sentenced to death 6 people by hanging after convicting them of ritualistic murder
- JUNE 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Yanhui, a 52 year old Beijing man convicted of robbery,...
Li Yanhui, a 52 year old Beijing man convicted of robbery, was executed by the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing
- JUNE 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that in its initial trial, the Foshan...
It was reported that in its initial trial, the Foshan Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong Province, China, sentenced Huang Zhaohua, Ceng Xianen and Xu Weide to death for selling ecstasy, ketamine and "ice"
- JUNE 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court,...
The Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court, in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, executed 10 "principal drug criminals"
- JUNE 18, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vu Xuan Lich and Tong Van Loi, leaders of a 16 member...
Vu Xuan Lich and Tong Van Loi, leaders of a 16 member ring that smuggled heroin from Laos to Vietnam, were sentenced to death by the People's Court in Lai Chau province in Vietnam
- JUNE 18, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Reporting on the treatment of Muslims in Uzbekistan,...
Reporting on the treatment of Muslims in Uzbekistan, the Muslim Uzbekistan web site stated that: "Tens of thousands of Uzbek Muslims have been unlawfully arrested, thousands have been tortured and dozens have been killed in extra-judicial executions
- JUNE 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Beijing Number Two Intermediate People's Court,...
The Beijing Number Two Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Wu Yinfu to death for killing Zhou Jianbo on 10 November 1999 following a dispute
- JUNE 18, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
Ernest Martin, 42, was executed this morning at the...
Ernest Martin, 42, was executed this morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
- JUNE 17, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhuang Chunsheng, a 21-year-old man convicted of killing...
Zhuang Chunsheng, a 21-year-old man convicted of killing his parents, was executed in Beijing after being convicted by the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court
- JUNE 17, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi citizen convicted of murdering a compatriot...
A Saudi citizen convicted of murdering a compatriot was beheaded by the sword in the capital Riyadh