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- DECEMBER 6, 2002Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe urged Russia to finally ban the...
The Council of Europe urged Russia to finally ban the death penalty
- DECEMBER 6, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe urged Russia to finally ban the...
The Council of Europe urged Russia to finally ban the death penalty
- DECEMBER 6, 2002UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
A United Nations' rapporteur accused Uzbekistan of...
A United Nations' rapporteur accused Uzbekistan of routinely using torture to terrorize opponents and obtain confessions which sometimes resulted in courts handing down the death penalty
- DECEMBER 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile demanded...
The Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile demanded the reversals of a death sentence against a Tibetan activist and a suspended death sentence against a senior Buddhist monk handed down by a Chinese court
- DECEMBER 6, 2002North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In Raleigh, Ernest Basden was executed by injection
In Raleigh, Ernest Basden was executed by injection
- DECEMBER 5, 2002Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare...
It was reported that Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare directed the Justice Department to review penalties in relation to addressing law and order problems in the country
- DECEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Tibetan human rights group condemned death sentences...
A Tibetan human rights group condemned death sentences passed by a Chinese court on two ethnic Tibetans found guilty of bomb attacks in the south west of China
- DECEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court sentenced to death two ethnic Tibetans...
A Chinese court sentenced to death two ethnic Tibetans accused of setting off a series of bombs in the southwest of the country near Tibet
- DECEMBER 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
In Springfield, the Illinois Senate enacted a sweeping...
In Springfield, the Illinois Senate enacted a sweeping law that makes terrorism a death-penalty offense, unanimously snubbing lame-duck Gov
- DECEMBER 5, 2002IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Illinois lawmakers overrode the governor's veto and...
Illinois lawmakers overrode the governor's veto and voted unanimously to make terrorism a death penalty offence in the state
- DECEMBER 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
CHINA SENTENCES TWO TIBETANS TO DEATH FOR BOMBINGS
December 5, 2002: a Chinese court has sentenced to death two ethnic Tibetans accused of setting off a series of bombs in the southwest of the country near Tibet, a court official said on Thursday.
- DECEMBER 4, 2002Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control revealed...
The Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control revealed that since 1988 it had solved 66,000 drug-related cases, sentencing 42 people to death and giving life imprisonment to 48
- DECEMBER 4, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Member of Parliament Augusto Syjuco stated that the...
Member of Parliament Augusto Syjuco stated that the sale, manufacture and distribution of counterfeit medicines should be classified as a crime punishable by death through lethal injection
- DECEMBER 4, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister P
Prime Minister P
- DECEMBER 4, 2002IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The Republican-controlled Illinois Senate approved...
The Republican-controlled Illinois Senate approved a watered-down version of Gov
- DECEMBER 4, 2002JordanDEATH PENALTY
Yasir Abu-Shinnar, who was convicted of the 1994 killing...
Yasir Abu-Shinnar, who was convicted of the 1994 killing of a Jordanian diplomat in Beirut by the State Security Court, was executed at Swaqa prison at dawn, official sources said
- DECEMBER 4, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi King Fahd commuted the death sentences of 17...
Saudi King Fahd commuted the death sentences of 17 Saudis convicted of rioting, ordering them to instead serve 10 years in jail, the Interior Ministry said
- DECEMBER 4, 2002PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
In Lancaster, Landon D
In Lancaster, Landon D
- DECEMBER 4, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
In an open letter to the press, Iranian dissident academic...
In an open letter to the press, Iranian dissident academic Hashim Aghajari took on his conservative opponents, mocking his death sentence for blasphemy as a political verdict
- DECEMBER 4, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Huntsville, Leonard Rojas, 52, who confessed to...
In Huntsville, Leonard Rojas, 52, who confessed to killing his common-law wife and brother, whom he suspected of having an affair, was executed
- DECEMBER 4, 2002DEATH PENALTY
SAUDI MONARCH COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES AGAINST 17 MEN
December 4, 2002: Saudi King Fahd has commuted the death sentences of 17 Saudis convicted of rioting, ordering them to instead serve 10 years in jail, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
- DECEMBER 3, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Times Of India published an interview with lawyer...
The Times Of India published an interview with lawyer and activist, Subrata Mukherjee, regarding the proposed implementation of the death penalty for convicted rapists
- DECEMBER 3, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis tabled a parliamentary...
Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis tabled a parliamentary question on religious persecution in China in the European Parliament
- DECEMBER 3, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis tabled a parliamentary...
Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis tabled a parliamentary question on religious persecution in China in the European Parliament
- DECEMBER 2, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Jamaica plans to bring back hanging to try to stem...
Jamaica plans to bring back hanging to try to stem a rise in violent crime, the Caribbean nation's No
- DECEMBER 2, 2002CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba's top prosecutor defended the island's continued...
Cuba's top prosecutor defended the island's continued use of the death penalty as a deterrent to atrocious common crimes, but noted that the measure is used selectively
- DECEMBER 2, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human...
The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human rights dossier on Iraq and Saddam Hussein entitled "the barbarity of his regime"
- DECEMBER 2, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Kyodo News published an interview with Masaharu Harada,...
Kyodo News published an interview with Masaharu Harada, the brother of a murder victim, whose killer Toshihiko Hasegawa had been sentenced to death and executed on December 27, 2001
- DECEMBER 2, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human...
The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human rights dossier on Iraq and Saddam Hussein entitled "the barbarity of his regime"
- DECEMBER 2, 2002IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
An alleged ringleader of the October 12 Bali bombings...
An alleged ringleader of the October 12 Bali bombings would welcome capital punishment for the crime because he considers it a martyr's death, one his lawyers said