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- AUGUST 1, 2001DEATH PENALTY
MORE DEATH SENTENCES FOR PALESTINIAN COLLABORATORS
August 1, 2001: Hands Off Cain is calling on Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to stop executions after three more Palestinians were condemned to death yesterday. A protest will be held outside the Italian Prime Minister’s Office tomorrow as A
- AUGUST 1, 2001DEATH PENALTY
MORE DEATH SENTENCES FOR PALESTINIAN COLLABORATORS
August 2, 2001: another Palestinian was condemned to death in Nablus for collaborating with Israel. This is the fourth death sentence for collaboration in three days.
- AUGUST 1, 2001NebraskaDEATH PENALTY
A new study of capital punishment suggests that it...
A new study of capital punishment suggests that it is applied unequally in rural and urban areas and that defendants whose victims are affluent are more likely to get the death penalty
- JULY 31, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian Authority security court sentenced three...
A Palestinian Authority security court sentenced three Palestinian men, Samir Abu-Zeina, Amjad Hafarza and Hussein Abu-Alayoun, to death for collaboration with Israel over the killing in December of a senior Fatah official
- JULY 31, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The Saudi Press Agency reported that a Saudi man convicted...
The Saudi Press Agency reported that a Saudi man convicted of battering his father to death with a tent pole had been executed
- JULY 31, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death three Burmese...
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death three Burmese men found guilty of possessing 190,000 speed pills in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, in March 2000
- JULY 31, 2001GuineaDEATH PENALTY
State radio reported that a court had sentenced 15...
State radio reported that a court had sentenced 15 people to death for instigating ethnic and religious bloodletting which killed 34 people in the West African country in the year 2000
- JULY 31, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to investigate whether the death sentence given to Rehmat Shah Afridi, the owner and chief editor of a Pakistan daily on charges of drug trafficking was politic
- JULY 31, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai court sentenced 14 drug dealers, including three...
A Thai court sentenced 14 drug dealers, including three women, in four separate trials, to death despite criticism from international human right organizations that the court has become an assembly line of death
- JULY 31, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to investigate whether the death sentence given to Rahmad Shah Afridi, the owner and chief editor of a Pakistan daily on charges of drug trafficking was politic
- JULY 31, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
A memo by a lab scientist for the Oklahoma City Police...
A memo by a lab scientist for the Oklahoma City Police Department refers to the case of Malcolm Rent Johnson, who was executed on Jan
- JULY 30, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Two Yemenis, Ahmed Muhammad Saleh and Abdullah Muhammad...
Two Yemenis, Ahmed Muhammad Saleh and Abdullah Muhammad Ahmed, executed by firing squad in Sana'a for two separate murders, the state prosecutor said
- JULY 30, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
It is estimated that there are about 50 death-row inmates...
It is estimated that there are about 50 death-row inmates in Japan
- JULY 30, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A six-year-old Nigerian boy faces a possible death...
A six-year-old Nigerian boy faces a possible death sentence after a four-month-old girl drowned in his care
- JULY 30, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Andrey Khvan was sentenced to death and four others...
Andrey Khvan was sentenced to death and four others to long prison terms for burglary and murder in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, the Uzbek newspaper Vecherniy Tashkent reported
- JULY 30, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan is looking at tightening procedures for harvesting...
Taiwan is looking at tightening procedures for harvesting organs from executed prisoners in reaction to allegations of human rights abuses, an official with the Bureau of Medical Affairs under the Department of Health, Chen I-an, said
- JULY 29, 2001JordanDEATH PENALTY
A 22-year-old soldier, convicted of killing two of...
A 22-year-old soldier, convicted of killing two of his colleagues at the military camp in Zarqa, was hanged, according to official sources
- JULY 29, 2001KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Catholic Archbishop Ndingi Mwana a'Nzeki hit out at...
Catholic Archbishop Ndingi Mwana a'Nzeki hit out at the police for their brutality against the public
- JULY 29, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Tianjin People's Higher Court sentenced two security...
The Tianjin People's Higher Court sentenced two security officers and three others to terms ranging from 13 years to a suspended death sentence for trying to place 44 falcons on a foreign-bound Air China flight, the Beijing Youth Daily reported
- JULY 29, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Jameel Jamal Mohammed executed by firing squad in al-Bayda...
Jameel Jamal Mohammed executed by firing squad in al-Bayda province for the murder of Ali Daifallah, the state prosecutor's office said
- JULY 28, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer was executed at a public meeting...
A convicted murderer was executed at a public meeting in Laghman Province, the Afghan Taleban radio said
- JULY 28, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced...
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced to death by an Iranian revolutionary court for illegal possession of prohibited drugs, was hanged at dawn in northeastern Iran
- JULY 28, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
In the West Bank town of Tulkarm, 3,000 people marched...
In the West Bank town of Tulkarm, 3,000 people marched to demand the death sentence for five Palestinians accused of treason and collaboration with Israel over the killing in December 2000 of Thabet Thabet, a Fatah leader
- JULY 28, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced...
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced to death by an Iranian revolutionary court for illegal possession of prohibited drugs, was hanged at dawn in northeastern Iran
- JULY 27, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
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- JULY 27, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International welcomed the Lebanese Parliament's...
Amnesty International welcomed the Lebanese Parliament's repeal of Law 302 which abolished judges' discretion to consider mitigating factors and made capital punishment mandatory for certain offences
- JULY 27, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdol Qayum was executed in a sports ground in the...
Abdol Qayum was executed in a sports ground in the western Herat Province
- JULY 27, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo...
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo Bernard Kobedi, a South African man who had been sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in a shootout
- JULY 27, 2001North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The UN's Human Rights Committee welcomed the fact that...
The UN's Human Rights Committee welcomed the fact that North Korea had cut the number of offences carrying a death penalty to five from 33 but noted that four of these offences were largely political
- JULY 27, 2001BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo...
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo Bernard Kobedi, a South African man who had been sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in a shootout