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- APRIL 11, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch warned that Russian soldiers were...
Human Rights Watch warned that Russian soldiers were carrying out human rights abuses in Chechnya despite a controversial referendum in March that Moscow said would bring peace to breakaway republic
- APRIL 11, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
International human rights organisations welcomed Kazakh...
International human rights organisations welcomed Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's initiatives aimed at making criminal law more humane and introducing life imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty
- APRIL 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking...
Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking opium and heroin under Vietnam's tough anti-drug laws
- APRIL 11, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed more people than any other country in...
China executed more people than any other country in 2002, two-thirds of the known world total of 1,500, and many of those cases violated international law, the human rights group Amnesty International said
- APRIL 11, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be hanged to death for multiple sectarian murders, court officials said
- APRIL 11, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla...
Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla GarcIa and Jorge Luis Martinez Isaac, three men convicted of terrorism for hijacking of a passenger ferry in Cuba were executed
- APRIL 10, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
A Lehigh County jury sentenced 21-year-old Ramon Sanchez...
A Lehigh County jury sentenced 21-year-old Ramon Sanchez to death on March 13, and Lehigh County Judge William E
- APRIL 10, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer who confessed to his crimes will...
A convicted murderer who confessed to his crimes will get a new trial after the California Supreme Court decided that Omar Dent III was improperly prevented from defending himself
- APRIL 10, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
In occasion of the UNCHR Antoine Madelin, of International...
In occasion of the UNCHR Antoine Madelin, of International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, said that corporal punishments and discrimination against women persisted in Iran
- APRIL 10, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal...
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal for Tony Blair to bow to US demands for Iraqi prisoners of war captured by British forces to be handed over to the US for trial or imprisonment in the United States
- APRIL 10, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational...
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational Radical Party and the Italian Radicals, to ask that funds given to Fidel Castro's regime by the European Commission be suspended
- APRIL 10, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain refutes the news that Amina Lawal has...
Hands Off Cain refutes the news that Amina Lawal has been condemned to death by the Supreme Court of her State of Katsina and that her stoning is now imminent
- APRIL 10, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain refutes the news that Amina Lawal has...
Hands Off Cain refutes the news that Amina Lawal has been condemned to death by the Supreme Court of her State of Katsina and that her stoning is now imminent
- APRIL 10, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational...
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational Radical Party and the Italian Radicals, to ask that funds given to Fidel Castro's regime by the European Commission be suspended
- APRIL 10, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal...
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal for Tony Blair to bow to US demands for Iraqi prisoners of war captured by British forces to be handed over to the US for trial or imprisonment in the United States
- APRIL 9, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Sadek Hossain, 42, was sentenced to death by the Acid...
Sadek Hossain, 42, was sentenced to death by the Acid Crime Prevention Tribunal in Dhaka for throwing acid on on Sudhir Ranjan Ghotok, a senior advocate of Dhaka district court
- APRIL 9, 2003VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
In Jarratt, maintaining his innocence to the end, Earl C
In Jarratt, maintaining his innocence to the end, Earl C
- APRIL 9, 2003North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to...
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to escape from China to South Korea in January, 30 were handed over by the Chinese authorities to North Korean frontier guards
- APRIL 9, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to...
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to escape from China to South Korea in January, 30 were handed over by the Chinese authorities to North Korean frontier guards
- APRIL 9, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Uzbekistan's central Tashkent Region passed...
A court in Uzbekistan's central Tashkent Region passed a death sentence on two men who knifed a woman and her child to death with the intent of robbing them, the Toshkent Haqiqati newspaper reported
- APRIL 8, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe insisted that Armenia ratify...
The Council of Europe insisted that Armenia ratify by June 2003 the 6th protocol to the European Human Rights Convention that envisages the full repeal of death penalty, the head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of E
- APRIL 8, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe insisted that Armenia ratify...
The Council of Europe insisted that Armenia ratify by June 2003 the 6th protocol to the European Human Rights Convention that envisages the full repeal of death penalty, the head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of E
- APRIL 8, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Don Wilson Hawkins, 43, died at 6:07 p
Don Wilson Hawkins, 43, died at 6:07 p
- APRIL 8, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed...
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission accusing Russia of grave rights violations in the breakaway republic of Chechnya
- APRIL 8, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Convicted capital murderers determined by a jury to...
Convicted capital murderers determined by a jury to be mentally retarded would be spared the death penalty under a bill approved by the Jurisprudence Committee
- APRIL 8, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed...
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission accusing Russia of grave rights violations in the breakaway republic of Chechnya
- APRIL 7, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China is much freer than before, but its sheer size...
China is much freer than before, but its sheer size makes it the world's No
- APRIL 7, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Convicted murderer Bobby Lee Harris is moving off death row
Convicted murderer Bobby Lee Harris is moving off death row
- APRIL 7, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Nine prisoners escaped from a temporary detention center...
Nine prisoners escaped from a temporary detention center in Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway republic, Deputy Interior Minister Valery Lagvilava said
- APRIL 6, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Deserters from the Iraqi army said they were beaten...
Deserters from the Iraqi army said they were beaten by their superiors and one said he saw 10 fellow soldiers executed by a commander, according to a Human Rights Watch report