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- JANUARY 21, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Department of Foreign Affairs in the Philippines...
The Department of Foreign Affairs in the Philippines stated that there were nineteen Filipino nationals awaiting execution in Saudi Arabian prisons
- JANUARY 20, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ayatollah Mohammad Sajjadi, adviser to the State Supreme...
Ayatollah Mohammad Sajjadi, adviser to the State Supreme Court and one of three judges examining the sentence against Hashem Aghajari said that the death sentence given to the Iranian lecturer and member of the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization, w
- JANUARY 20, 2003LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Libya secured the chairmanship of the UN Human Rights...
Libya secured the chairmanship of the UN Human Rights Commission amidst adverse reactions calling into disrepute the country's human rights record
- JANUARY 20, 2003LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Libya secured the chairmanship of the UN Human Rights...
Libya secured the chairmanship of the UN Human Rights Commission amidst adverse reactions calling into disrepute the country's human rights record
- JANUARY 20, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Armed robbery or theft carried out with violence is...
Armed robbery or theft carried out with violence is punishable by hanging in Kenya
- JANUARY 19, 2003JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International condemned plans by Jamaica's...
Amnesty International condemned plans by Jamaica's government to resume hangings
- JANUARY 19, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Chechenpress news agency reported that the mutilated...
Chechenpress news agency reported that the mutilated corpse of a local resident was found in the suburbs of Argun (eastern Chechnya) on 17 January 2003
- JANUARY 18, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In what perhaps was a watershed year for North Carolina's...
In what perhaps was a watershed year for North Carolina's death penalty, more death row inmates got reduced sentences - or the chance at them - in 2002 than were allowed to die
- JANUARY 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
State media reported that 18 convicted criminals were...
State media reported that 18 convicted criminals were put to death, 11 of them by lethal injection, in an annual tradition of carrying out executions before the Lunar New Year
- JANUARY 18, 2003SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Slovakia's Justice Minister Daniel...
It was reported that Slovakia's Justice Minister Daniel Lipsic said capital punishment was a "plausible system of penalty, which does not make corrections possible
- JANUARY 17, 2003IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The Presidency of the European Union issued a declaration...
The Presidency of the European Union issued a declaration on behalf of the EU on the decision to commute the sentences of all prisoners on death row in Illinois, US
- JANUARY 17, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court sentenced one man to death and two...
An Iranian court sentenced one man to death and two others to 10-year jail terms for cooperating with an outlawed leftist Kurdish rebel group, the official IRNA news agency reported
- JANUARY 17, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The Presidency of the European Union issued a declaration...
The Presidency of the European Union issued a declaration on behalf of the EU on the decision to commute the sentences of all prisoners on death row in Illinois, US
- JANUARY 16, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Greece, the current holder of the European Union presidency,...
Greece, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called on Democratic Republic of Congo leader Joseph Kabila to commute the death sentences of 30 people involved in the murder of his predecessor and father Laurent Kabila, the foreign ministry
- JANUARY 16, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Dushanbe sentenced Rahim Qalandarov to death
A court in Dushanbe sentenced Rahim Qalandarov to death
- JANUARY 16, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
Walter Schwimmer, Council of Europe Secretary-general,...
Walter Schwimmer, Council of Europe Secretary-general, released a statement commending the decision made by George Ryan, the outgoing Governor of Illinois "for his moral and political leadership in commuting the sentences of all 156 inmates on death row (
- JANUARY 16, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
Macedonian police have beaten, tortured and even killed...
Macedonian police have beaten, tortured and even killed suspects held in detention, the Council of Europe said in two reports
- JANUARY 16, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Tika Ram, a citizen of Nepal, was sentenced to death...
Tika Ram, a citizen of Nepal, was sentenced to death for murdering five members of a family in India in 1996
- JANUARY 16, 2003NepalDEATH PENALTY
Tika Ram, a citizen of Nepal, was sentenced to death...
Tika Ram, a citizen of Nepal, was sentenced to death for murdering five members of a family in India in 1996
- JANUARY 16, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The European Court of Human Rights declared as admissible...
The European Court of Human Rights declared as admissible six cases lodged against Russia for events in Chechnya
- JANUARY 16, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The European Court of Human Rights declared as admissible...
The European Court of Human Rights declared as admissible six cases lodged against Russia for events in Chechnya
- JANUARY 16, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, Daniel Juan Revilla, 34, was pronounced...
In McAlester, Daniel Juan Revilla, 34, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p
- JANUARY 16, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
Greece, the current holder of the European Union presidency,...
Greece, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called on Democratic Republic of Congo leader Joseph Kabila to commute the death sentences of 30 people involved in the murder of his predecessor and father Laurent Kabila, the foreign ministry
- JANUARY 16, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
Macedonian police have beaten, tortured and even killed...
Macedonian police have beaten, tortured and even killed suspects held in detention, the Council of Europe said in two reports
- JANUARY 16, 2003IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Walter Schwimmer, Council of Europe Secretary-general,...
Walter Schwimmer, Council of Europe Secretary-general, released a statement commending the decision made by George Ryan, the outgoing Governor of Illinois "for his moral and political leadership in commuting the sentences of all 156 inmates on death row (
- JANUARY 15, 2003TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkey signed a European protocol banning the death...
Turkey signed a European protocol banning the death penalty in peacetime a symbolic move demonstrating its commitment to human rights as it waits to open talks on EU membership
- JANUARY 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Fort Worth, Dale Devon Scheanette, 29, charged with...
In Fort Worth, Dale Devon Scheanette, 29, charged with a string of rapes and 2 murders was sentenced to death today for killing Wendie Prescott, 22, on Christmas Eve 1996
- JANUARY 15, 2003SudanDEATH PENALTY
The EU strongly condemned the executions of the three...
The EU strongly condemned the executions of the three persons recently sentenced to death in Sudan
- JANUARY 15, 2003VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
A Prince William County jury recommended that Paul...
A Prince William County jury recommended that Paul Warner Powell, 24, be put to death for stabbing 16-year-old Stacie Reed through the heart after trying to rape her, a verdict that could send Powell back to death row for the 1999 attack
- JANUARY 15, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain has sent an appeal to Joseph Kabila,...
Hands Off Cain has sent an appeal to Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo to commute the death sentences passed on at least 26 people convicted on January 7 of his father's -Laurent Kabila- murder two years ago