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- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Nasser Saleh Hamid executed in Hajjah province for...
Nasser Saleh Hamid executed in Hajjah province for murdering Khaled Hussein Ali
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations called for a fair trial of all 24...
The United Nations called for a fair trial of all 24 foreign and Afghan aid workers detained by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on the charge of promoting Christianity
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
President Islam Karimov cut the number of offences...
President Islam Karimov cut the number of offences carrying the death penalty from eight to four, but the categories remaining - aggression, genocide, terrorism and premeditated murder with aggravating circumstances - are seen as broad enough to allow a w
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
A new Ukrainian Criminal Code under which the most...
A new Ukrainian Criminal Code under which the most severe crimes are punished by life sentences became effective on September 1, 2001
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Latvian Embassy has asked a judge to spare the...
The Latvian Embassy has asked a judge to spare the life of Richard Baumhammers, 36, who has dual U
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
A new Ukrainian Criminal Code became effective on September...
A new Ukrainian Criminal Code became effective on September 1, 2001
- AUGUST 31, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
A Kampala lawyer, Gerald Kakuba of Kiboijana, and Company...
A Kampala lawyer, Gerald Kakuba of Kiboijana, and Company Advocates told the Constitutional Review Commission that the death penalty should be struck off the Constitution
- AUGUST 31, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Thomas Thibault, 26, received 3 death sentences from...
Thomas Thibault, 26, received 3 death sentences from Circuit Judge Marvin U
- AUGUST 31, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court in Thailand condemned Pateutoh,...
The Criminal Court in Thailand condemned Pateutoh, 34, and Shi,18, both from Burma, to death for smuggling 400,000 speed pills from Burma into Tak's Mae Sot district on August 23, 2000
- AUGUST 31, 2001LaosDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court in Thailand sentenced Singkham Suwanrit...
The Criminal Court in Thailand sentenced Singkham Suwanrit and Puangkaew Sirisopa, both from Laos nationals, to death for smuggling 359,840 speed pills from Laos into the Thai Peon Pisai district, Nong Khai, on April 20, 2001
- AUGUST 31, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in the southern province of Hunan sentenced...
A court in the southern province of Hunan sentenced a woman who blew up her husband and two accomplices to death for killing her husband and four other victims with a home-made bomb
- AUGUST 31, 2001Costa RicaDEATH PENALTY
Costa Rica's Constitutional Court cleared the way for...
Costa Rica's Constitutional Court cleared the way for the expulsion of Ukrainian Nazi Bodan Kosiy Ivanovich, 80, as had been ordered by the government in February 2000
- AUGUST 31, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
An extortionist who set off a home-made bomb in a supermarket...
An extortionist who set off a home-made bomb in a supermarket in China and wounded 27 shoppers was sentenced to death by a court in the northern city of Datong
- AUGUST 31, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Costa Rica's Constitutional Court cleared the way for...
Costa Rica's Constitutional Court cleared the way for the expulsion of Ukrainian Nazi Bodan Kosiy Ivanovich, 80, as had been ordered by the government in February 2000
- AUGUST 31, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced 12 men and five women...
The Criminal Court sentenced 12 men and five women to death on speed smuggling charges in six separate drug cases
- AUGUST 31, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In a significant ruling, Pakistan's Sindh Provincial...
In a significant ruling, Pakistan's Sindh Provincial High Court set aside the death sentence given [on February 17, 2001] to two activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) by an anti-terrorism court for allegedly working for Indian intelligence
- AUGUST 31, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko said the...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko said the Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma instructed the Foreign Ministry to strive for the observation of the rights of the Ukrainian citizens Mykola Soltys and Victoria Mamontova by foreign officials, in full
- AUGUST 31, 2001North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Ronald Wayne Frye (see 8/22/01) was put to death by...
Ronald Wayne Frye (see 8/22/01) was put to death by injection at the Central Prison after the governor denied his request for clemency
- AUGUST 31, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
In the preceding 18 months , the Tangerang District...
In the preceding 18 months , the Tangerang District Court handed down death sentences to 13 defendants for drug offences
- AUGUST 30, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian sentenced to death for murder was executed...
An Iranian sentenced to death for murder was executed in Tehran's Qasr Prison at dawn
- AUGUST 30, 2001Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Judah Akesim, MP for Ambunti-Drekikir, wants police...
Judah Akesim, MP for Ambunti-Drekikir, wants police to give licences to all Papua New Guineans so that everyone should have a gun in his possession
- AUGUST 30, 2001GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International (AI) sent an open letter to the...
Amnesty International (AI) sent an open letter to the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, about the mid-August shooting to death of a father and his son and his nephew
- AUGUST 30, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Changsha City's Intermediate People's Court carried...
Changsha City's Intermediate People's Court carried out the first trial in a major bombing case, which resulted in five dead and four injured, that occurred in Liuyang City's Dayao Township
- AUGUST 30, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A few years ago, Max Soffar made a fuss when Texas...
A few years ago, Max Soffar made a fuss when Texas prison officials told him that he could not have a rabbi attend him before his execution
- AUGUST 29, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at a parliamentary session Uzbek President...
Speaking at a parliamentary session Uzbek President Islam Karimov put forward some proposals on the ongoing reform of the country's judicial system
- AUGUST 29, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Bakhtar Information Agency reported that a man known...
Bakhtar Information Agency reported that a man known as Adamshah, convicted of murder, was executed
- AUGUST 29, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Adrian Nastase presented in Snagov a...
Prime Minister Adrian Nastase presented in Snagov a series of measures for the redress of the economic and social life in Romania including plans to reintroduce the death penalty for drug dealers
- AUGUST 29, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
George Rivas, 31, has been sentenced to die by lethal...
George Rivas, 31, has been sentenced to die by lethal injection for the killing of police Officer Aubrey Hawkins by a Dallas County jury
- AUGUST 29, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A young Iranian bandit, convicted of having stabbed...
A young Iranian bandit, convicted of having stabbed to death his foreman, ended up hanging on the gallows
- AUGUST 28, 2001EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Demonstrators in the capital city Addis Ababa requested...
Demonstrators in the capital city Addis Ababa requested the government to impose capital punishment against crimes involving rape, assault and sexual harassment