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- MARCH 13, 2002IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indonesian court sentenced a 21-year-old Thai woman...
An Indonesian court sentenced a 21-year-old Thai woman to death for attempting to smuggle 600 grams of heroin into the country in September 2001, news reports said
- MARCH 13, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 13, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- MARCH 13, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- MARCH 13, 2002DominicaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- MARCH 13, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- MARCH 13, 2002St. LuciaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- MARCH 13, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- MARCH 13, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- MARCH 13, 2002GrenadaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- MARCH 13, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh, under pressure to clamp down on escalating...
Bangladesh, under pressure to clamp down on escalating violence against women, introduced a law making acid attacks punishable by death
- MARCH 13, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Four Philippines congressmen rejected the Senate proposal...
Four Philippines congressmen rejected the Senate proposal seeking to abolish the death penalty and announced plans to gather signatures for a resolution supporting the full implementation of capital punishment
- MARCH 13, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
More than 100 prominent Russians, including world chess...
More than 100 prominent Russians, including world chess champion Anatoly Karpov and holder of the Nobel Prize for physics Zhores Alfyorov, urged President Vladimir Putin to reinstate the death penalty
- MARCH 13, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The State Duma rejected the Liberal Democratic Party-drafted...
The State Duma rejected the Liberal Democratic Party-drafted call for President Vladimir Putin to renounce Protocol No
- MARCH 13, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated his...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated his strong opposition to the death penalty
- MARCH 13, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Sinan Aygun, the Chairman of Ankara Chamber of Commerce...
Sinan Aygun, the Chairman of Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO), said that Karen Fogg, the European Union (EU) Commission's Representative to Turkey, mentioned death sentence during the meeting
- MARCH 13, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Three men convicted of killing two people in a 1997...
Three men convicted of killing two people in a 1997 bomb attack in the northeastern city of Mashhad were executed
- MARCH 13, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain’s online campaign to be launched in Spain
March 13, 2002: HOC’s online campaign for a global moratorium on executions will be launched in Madrid on March 14. The event can be viewed live on ya.com.
- MARCH 12, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe denounced the US refusal to commute...
The Council of Europe denounced the US refusal to commute a death sentence against Tracy Lee Housel, a Briton who is due to be executed
- MARCH 12, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A top Iranian cleric called for the trial and execution...
A top Iranian cleric called for the trial and execution of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for alleged war crimes against Palestinians
- MARCH 12, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A Malaysian court charged an Australian woman with...
A Malaysian court charged an Australian woman with carrying heroin in transit under a law carrying a maximum sentence of five years in jail rather than the death sentence for traffickers
- MARCH 12, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
A Malaysian court charged an Australian woman with...
A Malaysian court charged an Australian woman with carrying heroin in transit under a law carrying a maximum sentence of five years in jail rather than the death sentence for traffickers
- MARCH 12, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A top Iranian cleric called for the trial and execution...
A top Iranian cleric called for the trial and execution of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for alleged war crimes against Palestinians
- MARCH 12, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
A senior Zimbabwean opposition official said he had...
A senior Zimbabwean opposition official said he had been formally charged with treason for an alleged plot to kill President Robert Mugabe
- MARCH 12, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Briton Tracy Housel was executed by lethal injection,...
Briton Tracy Housel was executed by lethal injection, prison authorities in Georgia confirmed
- MARCH 12, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Kenny Richey, Jackie Elliot and Krishna Maharaj are...
Kenny Richey, Jackie Elliot and Krishna Maharaj are the three British inmates on death row in the United States
- MARCH 12, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a 49-year-old fisherman...
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a 49-year-old fisherman to death on a charge of murdering two other fishermen and severely injuring a third aboard a fishing boat in Tokyo Bay in 2000
- MARCH 12, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Kenny Richey, Jackie Elliot and Krishna Maharaj are...
Kenny Richey, Jackie Elliot and Krishna Maharaj are the three British inmates on death row in the United States
- MARCH 12, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Human rights protests mounted as Iranian President...
Human rights protests mounted as Iranian President Mohammed Khatami started the second day of his official visit to Austria
- MARCH 12, 2002AustriaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights protests mounted as Iranian President...
Human rights protests mounted as Iranian President Mohammed Khatami started the second day of his official visit to Austria