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- SEPTEMBER 23, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
State-run dailies reported the execution of a woman...
State-run dailies reported the execution of a woman in Tabriz, the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported in the October issue of its monthly bulletin 'Women' published on the Iran Mohajedin website
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
An influential organization of Roman Catholic bishops...
An influential organization of Roman Catholic bishops urged the Philippine government to blacklist Saudi Arabia as a work destination over the scheduled beheadings of Filipinos convicted by Islamic courts there
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
An influential organization of Roman Catholic bishops...
An influential organization of Roman Catholic bishops urged the Philippine government to blacklist Saudi Arabia as a work destination over the scheduled beheadings of Filipinos convicted by Islamic courts there
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Feng was executed for murder
Li Feng was executed for murder
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Five overseas Filipino workers awaiting execution in...
Five overseas Filipino workers awaiting execution in Saudi Arabian jails have appealed to their government and countrymen to change their fate by raising the "blood money" to exchange for their freedom
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The number of death-row inmates in Thailand's Bang...
The number of death-row inmates in Thailand's Bang Kwang Prison reached a record high of 690 since the government took its tough stance against drug traffickers in 2001
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India formally sought deportation of underworld don...
India formally sought deportation of underworld don Abu Salem, who was arrested along with his wife Monica Bedi in Lisbon with Pakistani passport, and said it was prepared to guarantee that he would not be given death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2002PortugalDEATH PENALTY
India formally sought deportation of underworld don...
India formally sought deportation of underworld don Abu Salem, who was arrested along with his wife Monica Bedi in Lisbon with Pakistani passport, and said it was prepared to guarantee that he would not be given death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002IrelandDEATH PENALTY
Septembre 20, 2001: a bi-lingual Conference on International...
Septembre 20, 2001: a bi-lingual Conference on International Law and the Abolition of the Death Penalty took place in Galway on 21 and 22 September
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
In Montgomery, the Alabama Supreme Court threw out...
In Montgomery, the Alabama Supreme Court threw out Andy Dwight Pierce's death sentence and conviction, saying he had ineffective attorneys when he was tried for the May 2, 1988 slaying and robbery of Annie Ruth Brooks
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
A man who went on a berserk rampage at JR Shimonoseki...
A man who went on a berserk rampage at JR Shimonoseki Station in 1999, killing five innocent people and injuring 10 more will hang for his crimes, a court ruled
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of Ivory Coast's former junta leader Robert...
Relatives of Ivory Coast's former junta leader Robert Guei and his wife Rose said that they had been executed by security forces and not in a shootout as was reported on state television
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)...
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) decried the effect of the Sharia legal code introduced in some Northern states of the country, saying that the implementation of Sharia was particularly unfavourable to women
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Jianhua was executed for murder
Chen Jianhua was executed for murder
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Huanggang Intermediate People's Court, in Hubei...
The Huanggang Intermediate People's Court, in Hubei Province, sentenced Jiang Lin and Zhou Zhiyong to death for organizing other gang members to damage public and private property, and collect "protection" fees
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi appeals court upheld death sentences against...
A Saudi appeals court upheld death sentences against three Saudi nationals, one in absentia, for the 2000 murder of a 20-year-old Saudi man in the United States
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union said it was concerned about human...
The European Union said it was concerned about human rights in China and will raise the issue when their leaders meet on September 22-24, diplomats said
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Union said it was concerned about human...
The European Union said it was concerned about human rights in China and will raise the issue when their leaders meet on September 22-24, diplomats said
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A British man was spared the death penalty but jailed...
A British man was spared the death penalty but jailed for life in Thailand for smuggling 4kg of heroin out of the country
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A British man was spared the death penalty but jailed...
A British man was spared the death penalty but jailed for life in Thailand for smuggling 4kg of heroin out of the country
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Hassan was hanged for murder
Ahmed Hassan was hanged for murder
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002KenyaDEATH PENALTY
David Kibet Birir and Joel Koskei were sentenced to...
David Kibet Birir and Joel Koskei were sentenced to death after they were found guilty of violently robbing a housewife of cash in Londiani on April 14, 2002
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
The Abidjan Panafrican News Agency reported that Ivorian...
The Abidjan Panafrican News Agency reported that Ivorian gendarmes and policemen carried out numerous summary executions against those they captured during a mutiny outbreak of about 750 soldiers
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Wilson Tuwei Maritim and Richard Kimutai Maritim were...
Wilson Tuwei Maritim and Richard Kimutai Maritim were sentenced to death by Senior Resident Magistrate Richard Kirui for violently robbing a farmer of cash and a half-kilo of meat
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
South Africa was totally opposed to the death by stoning...
South Africa was totally opposed to the death by stoning sentence imposed on a Nigerian woman but an Islamic Court, but the issue should be seen in the broader Nigerian context, President Thabo Mbeki said in reply to Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon d
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary...
The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly firmly condemned the capital executions of Yoshiteru and Tatsuya Tamoto in Japan
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary...
The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly firmly condemned the capital executions of Yoshiteru and Tatsuya Tamoto in Japan
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
South Africa was totally opposed to the death by stoning...
South Africa was totally opposed to the death by stoning sentence imposed on a Nigerian woman but an Islamic Court, but the issue should be seen in the broader Nigerian context, President Thabo Mbeki said in reply to Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon d
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Caribbean Justice, a group working towards the abolition...
Caribbean Justice, a group working towards the abolition of the death penalty, said plans by the government to amend the Constitution, in order to circumvent hangings, would be "a serious breach of the rule of law"
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Orange County circuit judge Belvin Perry sentenced...
Orange County circuit judge Belvin Perry sentenced John Huggins, 40, to death for the 2nd time for the 1997 kidnapping and murder of Carla Larson, a 30-year-old woman in June 1997Judge Belvin Perry, who overturned Huggins' original conviction and death se