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- SEPTEMBER 9, 2002DEATH PENALTY
SAFIYA MADE AN HONORARY CITIZEN OF ROME
September 9, 2002: Safiya Hussaini, a Nigerian woman who was saved from being stoned to death under Islamic Sharia law has been made an honorary citizen of the Italian capital, Rome. But Muslim leaders in northern Nigeria have denounced the move and accus
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Nationalist Action Party (MHP) applied to the Constitutional...
Nationalist Action Party (MHP) applied to the Constitutional Court requesting the annulment of six articles of the EU Adjustment Law and asking the court to stop their enforcement
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The Jomhuri-Ye Eslami daily reported that a man convicted...
The Jomhuri-Ye Eslami daily reported that a man convicted of armed robbery was hanged in public in southern Iran
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Six years after the abolishment of the death penalty...
Six years after the abolishment of the death penalty in South Africa, hundreds of former death row prisoners are still awaiting their fate as the department of justice drags its feet on reviewing their sentences
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man cut off his seven-year-old daughter's...
An Iranian man cut off his seven-year-old daughter's head after suspecting she had been raped by her uncle, the Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper said
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Following an international outcry against harsh sentences...
Following an international outcry against harsh sentences passed by Sharia courts in Nigeria, particularly on the Amina Lawal and Safiya cases, a prominent Islamic group in the North, the Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI) declared that the implementation of the
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Dalhatu Bafarawa,...
The Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Dalhatu Bafarawa, said that he would write a letter to President Olusegun Obasanjo, asking him to explain why the Federal Government issued a passport to Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu to enable her attend a ceremony in Rome
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria's Constitutional Rights Project (CRP) has asked...
Nigeria's Constitutional Rights Project (CRP) has asked for the intervention of the Federal Government to save Amina Lawal from being stoned to death
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
A jury sentenced John Dale Allen, 35, to death for...
A jury sentenced John Dale Allen, 35, to death for the 1999 killing of Elaine Posey Oliver, 51
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Beijing court ordered the execution of Lu Wanhua,...
A Beijing court ordered the execution of Lu Wanhua, chairman of Beijing Haiziwan Precision Chemical Limited Company, Beijing Taikang Bio-Medicine Limited Company and Singapore Guoyuxuan Stock Holding Private Limited Company, for using fake financial certi
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
When asked in a newspaper interview if he thought that...
When asked in a newspaper interview if he thought that Ukraine had abolished the death penalty too early, Prosecutor-General Svyatoslav Piskun stated: "I think the death penalty is a more efficient instrument to prevent serious crimes
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Caribbean Justice, a group working for the abolition...
Caribbean Justice, a group working for the abolition of the death penalty, said it was deeply concerned over allegations of brutality and mistreatment of a Trinidadian death row inmate and called on the authorities to launch an investigation into the matt
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The decision to commute Illinois death sentences to...
The decision to commute Illinois death sentences to life in prison should be "for everybody or for nobody," despite a review board's plan to hear almost 160 separate clemency cases in October, Governor George Ryan said
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed bin Said bin Mohamed Ali was publicly beheaded...
Mohamed bin Said bin Mohamed Ali was publicly beheaded for murder
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002BelizeDEATH PENALTY
In a claim to be 'addressing' the issue of violent...
In a claim to be 'addressing' the issue of violent crime via the resumption of executions, the Prime Minister of Belize, Said Musa, brought before the House of Representatives the Belize Constitution Amendment Bill 2002
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon called for the retrial...
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon called for the retrial of a Scottish man awaiting execution in America
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers of a Pakistani woman gang-raped on the orders...
Lawyers of a Pakistani woman gang-raped on the orders of a village council filed appeals against the acquittal of eight of the men who served on the traditional jury
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon called for the retrial...
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon called for the retrial of a Scottish man awaiting execution in America
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Dong Wei, 26, who escaped execution by four minutes...
Dong Wei, 26, who escaped execution by four minutes on April 28 after an appeal judge managed to reach the executioner by mobile phone four minutes prior to his execution, was finally executed
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Ministry of Public Security newspaper reported that...
A Ministry of Public Security newspaper reported that the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province, sentenced Ren Yueming, manager of Yinxian County Sanyou Materials Trading Company, to death with two years reprieve and confiscation of all
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Roberto Gungon, one of the two abductors of former...
Roberto Gungon, one of the two abductors of former De La Salle University student Agnes Guirindola was sentenced to death by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court after he was found guilty of kidnapping with serious illegal detention and frustrated murder
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Romanian Government approved a bill ratifying Protocol...
The Romanian Government approved a bill ratifying Protocol No
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A sharia appeals court in Nigeria ordered a man sentenced...
A sharia appeals court in Nigeria ordered a man sentenced to death by stoning for raping a nine-year-old girl to appear at a hearing later in September, defence lawyers said
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The second suspect in the kidnapping and frustrated...
The second suspect in the kidnapping and frustrated murder of De La Salle student Agnes Guirindola was ordered to die by lethal injection -seven and a half years after the first suspect was sentenced to death
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Turkey Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel, on a visit...
Turkey Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel, on a visit to Brussels as part of the action plan to explain Turkey's efforts to fulfil Copenhagen Criteria, asked Belgian Minister for European Affairs Annemie Neyts to extradite Fehriye Erdal, suspected of Ozdem
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Turkey Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel, on a visit...
Turkey Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel, on a visit to Brussels as part of the action plan to explain Turkey's efforts to fulfil Copenhagen Criteria, asked Belgian Minister for European Affairs Annemie Neyts to extradite Fehriye Erdal, suspected of Ozdem
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues...
The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) sent a delegation to evaluate the application of Islamic Sharia law and its human rights implications in northern Nigeria, sources close to the Federation said in Paris
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Barbados passed a pro-hanging constitutional amendment...
Barbados passed a pro-hanging constitutional amendment and Belize expects to do so by December
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Somkliang Soyplai, 44, was executed by shooting
Somkliang Soyplai, 44, was executed by shooting
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Courts: 10 panellists favor life in prison for the...
Courts: 10 panellists favor life in prison for the man who gunned down 3 Anaheim hospital workers