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- DECEMBER 17, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A judge in Tarlac City meted out the death penalty...
A judge in Tarlac City meted out the death penalty to a man for raping his 19-year-old granddaughter in La Paz town in March
- DECEMBER 17, 2001SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain said it will take anti-terrorist cooperation...
Spain said it will take anti-terrorist cooperation with the United States and Russia "beyond words" after it assumes the rotating presidency of the European Union early in 2002, Foreign Minister Josep Pique said
- DECEMBER 17, 2001GrenadaDEATH PENALTY
A prominent church leader was sentenced to death in...
A prominent church leader was sentenced to death in the murder of a 15-year-old girl who had attended his church for years
- DECEMBER 17, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Mubende, Uganda, sentenced to death...
The High Court in Mubende, Uganda, sentenced to death two men for robbery and murder
- DECEMBER 17, 2001OhioDEATH PENALTY
Common Pleas Judge Neal Bronson threw out a jury's...
Common Pleas Judge Neal Bronson threw out a jury's recommendation of death for twice-convicted killer Timothy Hancock after he discovered that they had viewed potentially inflammatory exhibits in deciding the inmate's fate
- DECEMBER 16, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Gul Agha Shirzai, the new governor of Kandahar, according...
Gul Agha Shirzai, the new governor of Kandahar, according to multiple accounts, ordered the summary execution of foreign-born Taliban soldiers captured in the last month
- DECEMBER 16, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Rapists, especially those who raped young children,...
Rapists, especially those who raped young children, should be given the death sentence, said Sylvia Farmer, whose teenage daughter Valencia Farmer was gang-raped, stabbed numerous times and left dead in a derelict house on the Cape Flats
- DECEMBER 16, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
An Islamic court told Safiya Hussaini, who was sentenced...
An Islamic court told Safiya Hussaini, who was sentenced to die after being found guilty of adultery, that her life will be spared if she can prove her daughter Adama, who is now almost a year old, was the result of rape
- DECEMBER 16, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Thai Cabinet recently resolved that sentences of...
The Thai Cabinet recently resolved that sentences of execution or life imprisonment for under 18 year olds shall be commuted to 15 years' imprisonment
- DECEMBER 16, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Aaron Patterson, a death row inmate, says police punched...
Aaron Patterson, a death row inmate, says police punched him and suffocated him with a plastic typewriter cover 15 years ago to get a false confession in the killings of an elderly couple
- DECEMBER 16, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A rally gathered in the Hotan sports stadium in October...
A rally gathered in the Hotan sports stadium in October to watch court officials sentence a man to death, a scene that was played out hundreds of times across China in 2001 as part of the Communist Party's latest drive against crime
- DECEMBER 16, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Renowned international, anti-capital punishment advocate...
Renowned international, anti-capital punishment advocate Roger G
- DECEMBER 15, 2001BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
The President of the European Parliament Nicole Fontaine,...
The President of the European Parliament Nicole Fontaine, in a press conference following her address to the Heads of State and Government of the EU and the European Commission, gathered at the Laeken Summit, said that Parliament's great concern was to th
- DECEMBER 15, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Arif Hussain Baloch was given capital punishment for...
Arif Hussain Baloch was given capital punishment for drug trafficking by the Special Judge Anti Narcotics Court Syed Kazim Raza Shamsi
- DECEMBER 15, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Robina Ansari, appealed a ruling of the Lahore High...
Robina Ansari, appealed a ruling of the Lahore High Court dismissing her request for damages to her and her sister Shama Bibi after they both miscarried during an investigation for murder
- DECEMBER 15, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that...
Turkish Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that he cannot give assurances to Germany that Metin Kaplan, would not be executed if Germany decides to extradite him to Turkey
- DECEMBER 15, 2001GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that...
Turkish Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that he cannot give assurances to Germany that Metin Kaplan, would not be executed if Germany decides to extradite him to Turkey
- DECEMBER 15, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The uncle of murdered Turkish asylum seeker Firsat...
The uncle of murdered Turkish asylum seeker Firsat Dag called for the return of capital punishment, after the High Court in Glasgow condemned Scott Burrell to a minimum of 14 years
- DECEMBER 15, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A poll published in the Sunday People newspaper found...
A poll published in the Sunday People newspaper found that four out of five Britons want child sex offenders jailed indefinitely
- DECEMBER 15, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Western Cape Premier Peter Marais called for the re-instatement...
Western Cape Premier Peter Marais called for the re-instatement of the death penalty in order to end a spate of murders and rapes, the SABC reported
- DECEMBER 15, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Under pressure from voters over rising violent crime,...
Under pressure from voters over rising violent crime, several Caribbean governments, including Trinidad, have joined forces to create a regional court to ease the application of the death penalty
- DECEMBER 15, 2001North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Sherman Elwood Skipper, 59, on North Carolina's death...
Sherman Elwood Skipper, 59, on North Carolina's death row is the 1st in the state to have his sentence reduced under a new state law banning executions for the mentally retarded
- DECEMBER 14, 2001WisconsinDEATH PENALTY
In the past, attempts to reinstate capital punishment...
In the past, attempts to reinstate capital punishment in Wisconsin focused on child killers, cop killers and multiple murderers
- DECEMBER 14, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
[captured Taliban fighter] David Hicks is unlikely...
[captured Taliban fighter] David Hicks is unlikely ever to be tried for treason
- DECEMBER 14, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian MP and member of the PACE [Parliamentary Assembly...
Armenian MP and member of the PACE [Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] monitoring commission, Armen Rustamyan, noted that the country's president himself guaranteed resolution of the problem regarding the abolishment of capital punishment
- DECEMBER 14, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
A Czech court set free Muhammad Salih the exiled leader...
A Czech court set free Muhammad Salih the exiled leader of one of Uzbekistan's main opposition parties, saying he should not be extradited to the former Soviet republic, where he faces a long prison sentence
- DECEMBER 14, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
France demanded that the US spare the life of one of...
France demanded that the US spare the life of one of its citizens indicted on charges which could lead to his execution in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks
- DECEMBER 14, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
A Czech court set free Muhammad Salih the exiled leader...
A Czech court set free Muhammad Salih the exiled leader of one of Uzbekistan's main opposition parties, saying he should not be extradited to the former Soviet republic, where he faces a long prison sentence
- DECEMBER 14, 2001DEATH PENALTY
France demanded that the US spare the life of one of...
France demanded that the US spare the life of one of its citizens indicted on charges which could lead to his execution in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks
- DECEMBER 14, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The South Sumatra High Court imposed the death penalty...
The South Sumatra High Court imposed the death penalty on Kiagus Zainal Abidinagainst, who had previously been sentenced to 18 years in prison by a lower court for possessing 58