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- APRIL 30, 2002BoliviaDEATH PENALTY
Ronald MacLean, presidential candidate of the ruling...
Ronald MacLean, presidential candidate of the ruling ADN, has come up with a policy statement: if elected, he says, he will propose reintroducing the death penalty for rapists and murderers
- APRIL 30, 2002AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Alabama may become the third US state to impose the...
Alabama may become the third US state to impose the death penalty for those convicted of raping children
- APRIL 30, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ad hoc Sessions Judge Quetta Jameel Khan Sherani sentenced...
Ad hoc Sessions Judge Quetta Jameel Khan Sherani sentenced Muhammad Ismail, a killer, to capital sentence
- APRIL 30, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
Rejecting pleas of mental illness, a jury sentenced...
Rejecting pleas of mental illness, a jury sentenced John Battaglia, 46, to death for gunning down his 2 young daughters in what prosecutors called the "ultimate revenge" against his ex-wife
- APRIL 30, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
A jury ordered the death penalty for an inmate convicted...
A jury ordered the death penalty for an inmate convicted in the 1999 stabbing death of a state prison guard
- APRIL 30, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Ayub Paikayev, who exposed links between Georgian power...
Ayub Paikayev, who exposed links between Georgian power ministries and Chechen fighters, was reportedly tried by Shari'ah law and executed in the Pankisi Gorge
- APRIL 30, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Four suspected Abu Sayyaf members were killed in a...
Four suspected Abu Sayyaf members were killed in a reported encounter
- APRIL 30, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A human rights group criticised Saudi Arabia's "secretive"...
A human rights group criticised Saudi Arabia's "secretive" judicial system following confusion over the sentencing of seven Westerners on trial for alleged involvement in a bombing campaign in the kingdom
- APRIL 30, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A human rights group criticised Saudi Arabia's "secretive"...
A human rights group criticised Saudi Arabia's "secretive" judicial system following confusion over the sentencing of seven Westerners on trial for alleged involvement in a bombing campaign in the kingdom
- APRIL 29, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed the...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed the need of a moratorium on capital punishment in Kazakhstan in his message to the nation, which he read in parliament,
- APRIL 29, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhengzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court, in...
Zhengzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court, in Henan Province, convened a meeting to try 14 alleged criminals involved in five robbery cases, including an "Amway" robbery case
- APRIL 28, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hossein Butehkan was executed in Kashan, Iran
Hossein Butehkan was executed in Kashan, Iran
- APRIL 28, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man for knifing to...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man for knifing to death a compatriot, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
- APRIL 28, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A documentary due to be screened on the Irish television...
A documentary due to be screened on the Irish television channel RTE on April 30, shows how campaigning Irish missionary Father Shay Cullen, working with undercover cops, was 'sold' girls as young as twelve on the streets of Olangapo in the Philippines
- APRIL 28, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court has approved death sentence for those...
The Supreme Court has approved death sentence for those guilty of killing innocent persons of a particular community, religion or class
- APRIL 28, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese man sentenced to death for murder was saved...
A Chinese man sentenced to death for murder was saved from the executioner's bullet with only four minutes to spare because of the persistence of his lawyer and an available mobile phone
- APRIL 28, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A Tehran court handed out a death sentence to Fatemeh,...
A Tehran court handed out a death sentence to Fatemeh, and two unidentified males were condemned to die in Ahwaz
- APRIL 28, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
International human rights groups and British MPs expressed...
International human rights groups and British MPs expressed outrage after two Britons accused of masterminding a bombing campaign in Saudi Arabia were secretly given lengthy jail sentences
- APRIL 28, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
International human rights groups and British MPs expressed...
International human rights groups and British MPs expressed outrage after two Britons accused of masterminding a bombing campaign in Saudi Arabia were secretly given lengthy jail sentences
- APRIL 27, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Nepal said Indians are also eligible for the rewards...
Nepal said Indians are also eligible for the rewards it had announced for the capture, dead or alive, of top Maoist leaders
- APRIL 27, 2002NepalDEATH PENALTY
Nepal said Indians are also eligible for the rewards...
Nepal said Indians are also eligible for the rewards it had announced for the capture, dead or alive, of top Maoist leaders
- APRIL 27, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The family of Malaysian computer engineer Noor Suzaily...
The family of Malaysian computer engineer Noor Suzaily Mukhtar said they felt her death was vindicated with the death sentence imposed on Hanafi Mat Hassan
- APRIL 27, 2002North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists reported a crackdown on North...
Human rights activists reported a crackdown on North Korean refugees entering China over its northern border, as well as the arrest of South Korean missionaries who try to help them
- APRIL 27, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Special Judge S N Dhingra sentenced to death three...
Special Judge S N Dhingra sentenced to death three Pakistani militants, Nazir Khan, Abdul Rahim and Naser Mehmood Sodozey, belonging to Harkat-ul-Ansar, for kidnapping four foreign tourists in 1994 in a case in which Omar Sheikh was also one of the accuse
- APRIL 27, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Urumqi Municipal Intermediate People's Court, in...
The Urumqi Municipal Intermediate People's Court, in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, sentenced Qu Ligu, Chu Wei, and four other alleged criminals to death and terms of imprisonment
- APRIL 27, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tehran condemned to death Davoud Baghi and Saeed
A court in Tehran condemned to death Davoud Baghi and Saeed
- APRIL 27, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Labour MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] expressed...
A Labour MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] expressed "deep concern" at reports that a Scot had been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for alleged involvement in a bombing campaign
- APRIL 27, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Briton faces beheading in Saudi Arabia after he admitted...
A Briton faces beheading in Saudi Arabia after he admitted planting a car bomb which killed a fellow expatriate
- APRIL 27, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Britain declined to comment on a report that two Britons...
Britain declined to comment on a report that two Britons had been secretly sentenced to 18 years in jail for alleged involvement in a fatal bombing campaign in Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 27, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A Labour MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] expressed...
A Labour MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] expressed "deep concern" at reports that a Scot had been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for alleged involvement in a bombing campaign