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- MARCH 18, 2003QatarDEATH PENALTY
Marking a visit from Jordan's king, the leader of Qatar...
Marking a visit from Jordan's king, the leader of Qatar pardoned a Jordanian journalist who had been convicted of spying and sentenced to death, according to the official Qatari official news agency
- MARCH 18, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
Marking a visit from Jordan's king, the leader of Qatar...
Marking a visit from Jordan's king, the leader of Qatar pardoned a Jordanian journalist who had been convicted of spying and sentenced to death, according to the official Qatari official news agency
- MARCH 18, 2003DEATH PENALTY
US EXECUTES GULF WAR VETERAN IN THIRD FEDERAL EXECUTION
March 18, 2003: a decorated Gulf War veteran who claimed his exposure to Iraqi nerve gas caused him to rape and kill a female soldier was executed by injection Tuesday at a federal prison. Louis Jones Jr., 53, died by injection at the US Penitentiary nea
- MARCH 18, 2003Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 17, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Thai Senate voted to introduce fatal injections...
The Thai Senate voted to introduce fatal injections for executions and to abolish the death penalty and life sentences for 14 to 18-year-olds
- MARCH 17, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors demanded a court in the East Java capital...
Prosecutors demanded a court in the East Java capital of Surabaya to dismiss a second appeal by two convicts who were sentenced to death for the murder of a military officer
- MARCH 17, 2003YemenDEATH PENALTY
According to "Yemen Times", a number of human rights...
According to "Yemen Times", a number of human rights organisations and international anti-violence organizations expressed their resentment over the case of Laila Aesha, a Yemeni woman who was sentenced to death stoning in public after being found guilty
- MARCH 15, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Dissident Iranian professor Hashem Aghajari, under...
Dissident Iranian professor Hashem Aghajari, under sentence of death for blasphemy, rejected a court order for his mental health to be examined by doctors, his wife said
- MARCH 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Cases involving DNA analysis from the troubled Houston...
Cases involving DNA analysis from the troubled Houston police crime lab won't be treated any differently than other capital cases that reach Gov
- MARCH 15, 2003South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Former Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel called for...
Former Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel called for the reintroduction of the death penalty whilst attending the funeral of nine-year-old Miquela Appollis, slain by gangster crossfire near her home in Steenberg
- MARCH 14, 2003BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Two men were handed death sentences in the Bahamas,...
Two men were handed death sentences in the Bahamas, at the end of separate murder trials in which the juries returned unanimous guilty verdicts
- MARCH 14, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in northern Vietnam sentenced six men to death...
A court in northern Vietnam sentenced six men to death for trafficking nearly 90 kilograms of heroin
- MARCH 14, 2003AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
A Jefferson County jury decided Renard Marcel Daniel,...
A Jefferson County jury decided Renard Marcel Daniel, 28, should be put to death for killing 2 people execution-style on Sept
- MARCH 14, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
Cleveland killer Ernest Martin got a three-month reprieve...
Cleveland killer Ernest Martin got a three-month reprieve from execution in the first of what could be many cases involving capital punishment and the mentally retarded
- MARCH 14, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia suspended for 30 days the execution of Filipino...
Malaysia suspended for 30 days the execution of Filipino convict Andy Baguindah in order to revaluate his case upon request from the Philippine government
- MARCH 14, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia suspended for 30 days the execution of Filipino...
Malaysia suspended for 30 days the execution of Filipino convict Andy Baguindah in order to revaluate his case upon request from the Philippine government
- MARCH 14, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Lee Kwai Heong, 38 and Lee Ah Seng, 25 were sentenced...
Lee Kwai Heong, 38 and Lee Ah Seng, 25 were sentenced to death by the High Court after being found guilty of murdering a fisherman, Sanip Leham, 50
- MARCH 13, 2003AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
In Atmore, Michael Eugene Thompson was executed by...
In Atmore, Michael Eugene Thompson was executed by lethal injection for the 1984 murder of Maisie Carlene Gray, 57, on Dec
- MARCH 13, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
The Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court jury voted 7-5 that...
The Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court jury voted 7-5 that Charles Carpenter should die for the Nov
- MARCH 13, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The People's High Court in the eastern province of...
The People's High Court in the eastern province of Zhejiang announced that Yan Liang, 31, an employee of China Unicom's Quzhou branch, had been executed on terrorist charges for sending a mail bomb that killed his boss
- MARCH 13, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The EP adopted a resolution on the case of Amina Lawal,...
The EP adopted a resolution on the case of Amina Lawal, sentenced to death by stoning in Nigeria for committing adultery, pushing the Nigerian government to suspend all executions and to put an end to the use of the death penalty
- MARCH 13, 2003JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
A report released by Amnesty International stated that...
A report released by Amnesty International stated that Jamaican police deliberately killed a group of young men in 2001 in a high-profile case known as the Braeton Seven
- MARCH 13, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The EP adopted a resolution on the case of Amina Lawal,...
The EP adopted a resolution on the case of Amina Lawal, sentenced to death by stoning in Nigeria for committing adultery, pushing the Nigerian government to suspend all executions and to put an end to the use of the death penalty
- MARCH 12, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Aftab-e Yazd daily reported that students at the...
The Aftab-e Yazd daily reported that students at the Tarbiat-e Modarres teacher training university in Tehran had signed a petition calling for the unconditional release of academic dissident Hashem Aghajari sentenced to death for blasphemy
- MARCH 12, 2003MississippiDEATH PENALTY
Death row inmate David Blue has been resentenced to...
Death row inmate David Blue has been resentenced to life in prison without parole under a U
- MARCH 12, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda's Attorney General (AG) supported capital punishment...
Uganda's Attorney General (AG) supported capital punishment issued by Field Court Martial, describing it as necessary to instil discipline in soldiers
- MARCH 12, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the Council...
The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the Council of Europe Ambassador Nicolaos Emiliou handed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Mr Walter Schwimmer, the instrument of ratification of Protocol 13 to the Convention for the Protection of
- MARCH 12, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Eight people were sentenced to hang for the vicious...
Eight people were sentenced to hang for the vicious murder of a land dealer in Kenya
- MARCH 12, 2003CyprusDEATH PENALTY
The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the Council...
The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the Council of Europe Ambassador Nicolaos Emiliou handed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Mr Walter Schwimmer, the instrument of ratification of Protocol 13 to the Convention for the Protection of
- MARCH 12, 2003TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The European Court of Human Rights condemned Turkey...
The European Court of Human Rights condemned Turkey for violating the human rights of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan