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- APRIL 21, 2003AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
After 6 years on death row, Wesley Quick has been acquitted...
After 6 years on death row, Wesley Quick has been acquitted of killing 2 men in his 3rd trial for the 1995 shooting deaths
- APRIL 21, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In Wagoner, District Judge Bruce Sewell accepted a...
In Wagoner, District Judge Bruce Sewell accepted a sentencing deal that will spare the life of Billy Ray Battenfield, 51, who twice was sentenced to death in the April 22, 1984, killing of Donald Cantrell
- APRIL 21, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for...
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug trafficking, was publicly executed in a square in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, declared the Saudi Interior Ministry
- APRIL 21, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for...
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug trafficking, was publicly executed in a square in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, declared the Saudi Interior Ministry
- APRIL 20, 2003OregonDEATH PENALTY
In the guilt phase of the murder trial of Gregory Bowen,...
In the guilt phase of the murder trial of Gregory Bowen, the jury took 3 hours to find the defendant guilty on April 2
- APRIL 20, 2003IdahoDEATH PENALTY
Death row inmates in Idaho will no longer automatically...
Death row inmates in Idaho will no longer automatically face solitary confinement
- APRIL 19, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
An unnamed 46-year-old man convicted of illegal drug...
An unnamed 46-year-old man convicted of illegal drug production was sentenced to death in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City
- APRIL 19, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The London-based Privy Council upheld an appeal by...
The London-based Privy Council upheld an appeal by Bimal Roy Paria, a 29-year-old man in Trinidad and Tobago, who had been sentenced to death for killing his common law wife, her mother and sister on 24 July 1998
- APRIL 19, 2003ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa appointed a commission...
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa appointed a commission to review the constitution and advise on whether to abolish the death penalty
- APRIL 19, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The London-based Privy Council upheld an appeal by...
The London-based Privy Council upheld an appeal by Bimal Roy Paria, a 29-year-old man in Trinidad and Tobago, who had been sentenced to death for killing his common law wife, her mother and sister on 24 July 1998
- APRIL 19, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba said it would not allow a visit by a United Nations...
Cuba said it would not allow a visit by a United Nations envoy to look into accusations of human rights abuses on the island following the most severe crackdown in decades on opponents of President Fidel Castro
- APRIL 19, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba said it would not allow a visit by a United Nations...
Cuba said it would not allow a visit by a United Nations envoy to look into accusations of human rights abuses on the island following the most severe crackdown in decades on opponents of President Fidel Castro
- APRIL 18, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of Lahore High Court accepted the...
A division bench of Lahore High Court accepted the appeals of two convicts Omar Hayat and Muhammad Iqbal and turned their death sentences into life term imprisonment
- APRIL 17, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
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- APRIL 17, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the local court in the Mekong...
It was reported that the local court in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang had sentenced to death Phan Thanh Hung, 24, for raping and killing a woman and stealing her jewellery
- APRIL 17, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment...
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment criticizing a dissident crackdown by Cuba, but instead approved a milder resolution calling for a UN rights monitor to visit the island
- APRIL 17, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Armenian parliament passed the third reading of...
The Armenian parliament passed the third reading of the new criminal code, which abolishes capital punishment and replaces it with life imprisonment
- APRIL 17, 2003BelarusDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution...
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution condemning Belarus for subjecting opposition members to arbitrary detention, disappearances and executions
- APRIL 17, 2003BelarusDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution...
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution condemning Belarus for subjecting opposition members to arbitrary detention, disappearances and executions
- APRIL 17, 2003SamoaDEATH PENALTY
Ieu Pasi Leleimalefaga, 19, was sentenced to death...
Ieu Pasi Leleimalefaga, 19, was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Toesulu Solomona, a five-year-old girl
- APRIL 17, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment...
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment criticizing a dissident crackdown by Cuba, but instead approved a milder resolution calling for a UN rights monitor to visit the island
- APRIL 17, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row,...
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row, intervened at the UN Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Transational Radical Party
- APRIL 17, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The website of the Iranian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami...
The website of the Iranian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami reported that verdicts issued against five persons condemned to death for rape and murder had been implemented at Tehran's Qasr Prison
- APRIL 17, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Melanie Sammons Anderson, 39, who was sentenced to...
Melanie Sammons Anderson, 39, who was sentenced to death in 1996 now has a life sentence after a judge ruled that she was mentally retarded
- APRIL 17, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
The state of Oklahoma executed Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40
The state of Oklahoma executed Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40
- APRIL 17, 2003DEATH PENALTY
LEROY ORANGE SPEAKS AT THE UN AND CALLS FOR A GLOBAL MORATORIUM
April 17th 2003: Leroy Orange is a former death row inmate from Illinois who was exonerated last January by Governor George Ryan. Now Leroy Orange is now a testimonial of Hands Off Cain the international campaign for a UN moratorium on executions.
- APRIL 17, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row,...
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row, intervened at the UN Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Transational Radical Party
- APRIL 16, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court of Appeal in Bujumbura, Burundi,...
The Criminal Court of Appeal in Bujumbura, Burundi, condemned to death the assassin of the former Burundi chief of general staff under the First Republic, Maj-Gen Thomas Ndabemeye
- APRIL 16, 2003OregonDEATH PENALTY
Christian Longo has been sentenced to death for the...
Christian Longo has been sentenced to death for the murders of his wife, MaryJane, and 3 young children
- APRIL 16, 2003North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its...
The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its first ever condemnation of North Korea, expressing "deep concern" at "systematic" rights abuses in the reclusive Communist state