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- JANUARY 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty controversy sparked by the commutation...
The death penalty controversy sparked by the commutation of all 167 death row inmates in Illinois may spread to Texas if two bills filed last week pass the state Legislature
- JANUARY 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Huntsville, John Baltazar, 30, was executed for...
In Huntsville, John Baltazar, 30, was executed for killing 5-year-old Adriana Marines on the night of Sept
- JANUARY 15, 2003LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria urged Libya to commute the death sentences...
Nigeria urged Libya to commute the death sentences of a Nigerian and three Ghanaians convicted of a 1995 murder, a foreign ministry statement said
- JANUARY 15, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria urged Libya to commute the death sentences...
Nigeria urged Libya to commute the death sentences of a Nigerian and three Ghanaians convicted of a 1995 murder, a foreign ministry statement said
- JANUARY 15, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
A human rights protection panel under the Executive...
A human rights protection panel under the Executive Yuan [government] asked the Ministry of Justice to make the death penalty optional instead of mandatory as it now is in some cases as a first step toward eliminating capital punishment
- JANUARY 15, 2003GhanaDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria urged Libya to commute the death sentences...
Nigeria urged Libya to commute the death sentences of a Nigerian and three Ghanaians convicted of a 1995 murder, a foreign ministry statement said
- 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, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A 25-year-old Bangladeshi man received the death penalty...
A 25-year-old Bangladeshi man received the death penalty for maiming two people with acid, the first time the sentence has been given for such a crime, judicial sources said
- JANUARY 15, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-owned newspaper Etemad reported that a young...
The state-owned newspaper Etemad reported that a young man named Azim received a double death sentence
- JANUARY 15, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Jin Yugang, 35, was sentenced to death by the High...
Jin Yugang, 35, was sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering his colleague, Mr Wang Hong, 32, in front of a coffeeshop at midnight on February 4, 2002
- JANUARY 15, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Uzbek TV reported that the Uzbek Supreme Court sentenced...
Uzbek TV reported that the Uzbek Supreme Court sentenced the leader of a gang to death and four other members to long prison terms for multiple murders during a series of organized robberies
- JANUARY 15, 2003TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkey signed Protocol No
Turkey signed Protocol No
- JANUARY 14, 2003IndianaDEATH PENALTY
A federal judge has thrown out the death sentence for...
A federal judge has thrown out the death sentence for Keith B
- JANUARY 14, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Samuel Gallamore was executed
Samuel Gallamore was executed
- JANUARY 14, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Attorney-General Glenda Morean Phillips said Trinidad...
Attorney-General Glenda Morean Phillips said Trinidad and Tobago was drafting new legislation to allow for the execution of convicted killers
- JANUARY 14, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello voiced concern...
UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello voiced concern over the death sentences against 30 people for involvement in the killing of president Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- JANUARY 14, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The human rights group Caribbean Justice accused former...
The human rights group Caribbean Justice accused former Trinidad and Tobago's Attorney-General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj of double standards on the issue of state executions
- JANUARY 14, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-owned Jomhouri Islami daily reported that...
The state-owned Jomhouri Islami daily reported that the head of the justice department in the northern city of Noshahr had announced that a woman named Zeinab was sentenced to flogging and hanging by the local court
- JANUARY 14, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International issued a statement welcoming...
Amnesty International issued a statement welcoming the release of the "Hsichih Trio": Su Chien-ho, Liu Bing-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun, death row inmates who were acquitted by the Taiwan High Court of all charges brought against them for the murder of a cou
- JANUARY 14, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
A lawyer representing the family of the victims of...
A lawyer representing the family of the victims of the 1991 Hsichih double murder said he would ask the prosecutor to appeal against the Taiwan High Court's acquittal of the Hsichih Trio
- JANUARY 14, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad E
Ahmad E
- JANUARY 14, 2003DEATH PENALTY
KENYA TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
January 14, 2003: Kenya´s new government wants to abolish the death penalty within the next six months, Justice Minister Kiraitu Murungi stated. HOC said Kenya’s decision, coming on the heels of a historic election, reinforces its belief that abolition an
- JANUARY 14, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello voiced concern...
UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello voiced concern over the death sentences against 30 people for involvement in the killing of president Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- JANUARY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Ali Gholestaneh, Mostapha Ghanjali and Seyed...
Ahmad Ali Gholestaneh, Mostapha Ghanjali and Seyed Khalil Pour-Anvari were executed for drug-trafficking January 9 in the courtyard of the Evine prison in Tehran, the student news agency ISNA reported
- JANUARY 13, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China sentenced 10 people to death in two separate...
China sentenced 10 people to death in two separate cases in central and eastern China involving drug trafficking and armed robberies along highways, state media said
- JANUARY 13, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan's most famous death row convicts emerged blinking...
Taiwan's most famous death row convicts emerged blinking into freedom and a media scrum after the island's High Court declared them not guilty of a vicious double murder more than a decade ago
- JANUARY 13, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan freed three men who had been on death row for...
Taiwan freed three men who had been on death row for more than a decade in a brutal robbery-murder case that had put the island's human rights record in the spotlight
- JANUARY 13, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Eighteen people were sentenced to death in Kazakhstan...
Eighteen people were sentenced to death in Kazakhstan in 2002
- JANUARY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Karam Abdollahi, Nader Sadati and Khalil Mansouri,...
Karam Abdollahi, Nader Sadati and Khalil Mansouri, convicted of armed robbery were hanged on January 9 in the courtyard of the Evine prison in Tehran, the student news agency ISNA reported
- JANUARY 13, 2003NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
The district court in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia,...
The district court in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, sentenced Ang Kim Sui alias Tomy Wijaya, 50, to death for producing and distributing ecstasy pills