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- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi lawyer for a William Sampson, a Canadian man...
A Saudi lawyer for a William Sampson, a Canadian man on trial in Riyadh over a fatal bombing denied widespread reports his client had already been sentenced to death and expressed confidence that he and his co-accused would soon be freed
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Badie Hamadeh was sentenced to death for shooting dead...
Badie Hamadeh was sentenced to death for shooting dead three security officers
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajik television reported that Bahrullo Mingboyev was...
Tajik television reported that Bahrullo Mingboyev was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) appealed to...
The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) appealed to the Nigerian government to set aside the ruling of the Sharia Court that sentenced Amina Lawal to death by stoning for having had a baby outside wedlock
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) appealed to...
The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) appealed to the Nigerian government to set aside the ruling of the Sharia Court that sentenced Amina Lawal to death by stoning for having had a baby outside wedlock
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
The former Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary...
The former Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa, now the Speaker of Parliament, has since independence spoken strongly against capital punishment
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Liuzhou Prefecture Court, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous...
The Liuzhou Prefecture Court, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, executed Wei Kesong, 23, for drug trafficking
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002DEATH PENALTY
FIVE TO HANG AT DAWN IN IRAN
September 27, 2002: a gang of five men convicted of rape and extortion have been sentenced to death by hanging at dawn on Sunday across Tehran. These executions follow at least six others carried out last week in the Islamic republic.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain demonstrated in front of the UN Rome...
Hands Off Cain demonstrated in front of the UN Rome headquarters to urge the Italian government to present a censure resolution of human rights violations in Iran at the current UN General Assembly in New York
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain demonstrated in front of the UN Rome...
Hands Off Cain demonstrated in front of the UN Rome headquarters to urge the Italian government to present a censure resolution of human rights violations in Iran at the current UN General Assembly in New York
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002HondurasDEATH PENALTY
The Honduran attorney general, Roy Medina, admitted...
The Honduran attorney general, Roy Medina, admitted that police had been involved in carrying out summary executions of suspected criminals
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for Canadian businessman William Sampson, who...
Lawyers for Canadian businessman William Sampson, who is facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia over a fatal bombing allege their client and his co-accused were tortured and had their confessions beaten out of them
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002KenyaDEATH PENALTY
The Kenya Human Rights Commission released a report...
The Kenya Human Rights Commission released a report on the Human Rights situation in the country stating that there had been more than 1,500 cases of violence and human rights violations reported countrywide in the first three months of the year
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's chief justice proposed that one of the...
Afghanistan's chief justice proposed that one of the country's most notorious commanders should face public execution after being convicted on dozens of counts of murder
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for Canadian businessman William Sampson, who...
Lawyers for Canadian businessman William Sampson, who is facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia over a fatal bombing allege their client and his co-accused were tortured and had their confessions beaten out of them
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Four members of Burma's former ruling family were sentenced...
Four members of Burma's former ruling family were sentenced to death by hanging after a court found them guilty of treason
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan,...
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, declared in a press release in Bujumbura that the Government of Burundi must lift the blanket of impunity and take effective action to end the escalating pattern of killings of civilians by the armed
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
Calvin King was executed for a robbery-slaying during...
Calvin King was executed for a robbery-slaying during a drug deal while he was on parole
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002OhioDEATH PENALTY
Robert Anthony Buell was executed by lethal injection...
Robert Anthony Buell was executed by lethal injection for the July 11, 1982 abduction and slaying of 11-year-old Krista Lea Harrison
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The plight of a mother sentenced to death by stoning...
The plight of a mother sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Nigeria drew bipartisan condemnation from female MPs in the New South Wales parliament
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam...
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam to waive the death penalty against an Australian woman convicted of drug trafficking
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The plight of a mother sentenced to death by stoning...
The plight of a mother sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Nigeria drew bipartisan condemnation from female MPs in the New South Wales parliament
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
93.73% of the 1,010 (as of Sept 25, 2002) death row...
93.73% of the 1,010 (as of Sept 25, 2002) death row convicts come from the marginalized sector who cannot afford to hire competent legal defense due to poverty. Of this total, 47
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam...
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam to waive the death penalty against an Australian woman convicted of drug trafficking
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International expressed its concern for the...
Amnesty International expressed its concern for the safety of 20 prisoners held by the Ugandan army in Gulu
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002HondurasDEATH PENALTY
The Security Ministry's head of internal affairs, Maria...
The Security Ministry's head of internal affairs, Maria Luisa Borjas, said that police officers had been involved in the summary execution of at least 20 suspected criminals over the last four years
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors urged an Islamic court in northwestern...
Prosecutors urged an Islamic court in northwestern Nigeria to throw out an appeal by a man sentenced to death by stoning for raping a young girl because his insanity claim was untenable
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
The anti-Saddam dossier commissioned by British Prime...
The anti-Saddam dossier commissioned by British Prime Minister Tony Blair reported that approximately 4,000 people were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in 1984, 3,000 at Mahjar prison between 1993 and 1998 and about 2,500 between 1997 and 1999 in a "prison
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman and a man were stoned to death in a west Iranian...
A woman and a man were stoned to death in a west Iranian town after 15 years of imprisonment, the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (CNRI) said
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The United States executes two thirds of all child...
The United States executes two thirds of all child offenders killed by the death penalty around the world, according to a report by Amnesty International