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- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xian City Intermediate Court pronounced judgment on...
Xian City Intermediate Court pronounced judgment on six drug dealers involved in trafficking 320
- JUNE 24, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a "religious fundamentalist network"...
Two members of a "religious fundamentalist network" accused of "armed actions" in Iran including an attack on a senior court official were sentenced to death, the head of Tehran's revolutionary court said
- JUNE 24, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Media reported that 18 people in Chongqing had been...
Media reported that 18 people in Chongqing had been executed for drug trafficking
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangzhou Railway Communications Court, Guangdong Province,...
Guangzhou Railway Communications Court, Guangdong Province, openly ordered the execution of Li Yougao and six others for drugs crimes
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed...
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed after being sentenced at a mass rally in the southwestern city of Chengdu on drug-related crimes
- JUNE 23, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Former death row inmates, human rights activists and...
Former death row inmates, human rights activists and legislators joined thousands of marchers in silence to protest against capital punishment
- JUNE 23, 2001WashingtonDEATH PENALTY
King County Superior Court Judge Joan DuBuque officially...
King County Superior Court Judge Joan DuBuque officially sentenced to death Dayva Cross, 41
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after...
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after elections were followed by an uprising by more than half a million people who took to the streets of Belgrade, seized the parliament, and burned down the state television station
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the...
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the way for the extradition of former President Slobodan Milosevic to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a...
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a robbery case of an "exceptionally large" criminal gang of 21 members and passed death sentences on 11 suspects, including Min Yongjun and Zeng Wenqing
- JUNE 23, 2001DEATH PENALTY
STRASBOURG, FIRST WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
22 June, 2001: Hands off Cain calls for attention to all those executed whose plight is not known to the world.
- JUNE 22, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Speakers of parliaments from four continents called...
Speakers of parliaments from four continents called for a global ban on capital punishment at the first world congress against the death penalty
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province, seven...
In Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province, seven people were executed for a variety of crimes including murder and robbery
- JUNE 22, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Frank Keating proposed a higher standard for capital...
Gov. Frank Keating proposed a higher standard for capital murder convictions, saying "moral certainty" would be more defensible than the current "beyond a reasonable doubt." At a speech at the National Press Club, Keating suggested the higher threshold
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Baoji Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shaanxi...
Baoji Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shaanxi Province, sentenced to death Xu Baosheng and Xia Jialing, managers of Baoji Finance Security Company for embezzlement of public funds and accepting bribes
- JUNE 22, 2001ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged the Zambian government...
Amnesty International urged the Zambian government to consider abolishing the death penalty, recalling that the country is signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human rights and the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights
- JUNE 22, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
The family of Zainab Saud Aziz, a student murdered...
The family of Zainab Saud Aziz, a student murdered by the Sana'a Ripper Mohammed Adam Omar stated they were furious they had not been invited to witness the execution of her killer and that they suspect he had not been executed
- JUNE 22, 2001SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The Public Opinion Research Institute of the Statistic...
The Public Opinion Research Institute of the Statistic Office in Slovakia found 57 percent are in support of the reintroduction of capital punishment in Slovakia
- JUNE 22, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The execution of Saudi national Salim Bin-Majid Bin-Salim...
The execution of Saudi national Salim Bin-Majid Bin-Salim Al Balalayf was carried out in the Al-Aflaj Governorate of Riyadh
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wuzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Hong Kong...
Wuzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Hong Kong businessman Pan Wensheng to death with two years stay of execution, and Wuzhou resident Luo Yujun to life imprisonment, both on charges of drug trafficking
- JUNE 21, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
The first world congress against the death penalty...
The first world congress against the death penalty opened in Strasbourg bringing together politicians, lawyers, human rights workers and former death row inmates
- JUNE 21, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
At the first World Congress Against the Death Penalty,...
At the first World Congress Against the Death Penalty, Walter Schwimmer, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, denounced the United States' use of capital punishment
- JUNE 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Tianjin Municipal Number Two Intermediate People's...
Tianjin Municipal Number Two Intermediate People's Court sentenced to death Deng Chenhui for illegally obtaining insurance funds
- JUNE 21, 2001AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
The execution of triple-murderer Glenn William Holladay...
The execution of triple-murderer Glenn William Holladay was blocked by the U
- JUNE 21, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Sakae Menda, 76, a former Japanese death row inmate...
Sakae Menda, 76, a former Japanese death row inmate who had spent 32 years on death row for a crime he did not commit, appealed to do away with capital punishment worldwide at the opening of the first world congress against the death penalty in Strasbourg
- JUNE 21, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
After beeing approved by Senate it was referred to...
After beeing approved by Senate it was referred to Judiciary Committee at the House the bill (SB 589) to allow inmates to petition the courts to have DNA tests done on available evidence
- JUNE 21, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Scwimmer...
Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Scwimmer asked Turkey and Russia to sign European Convention of Human Rights protocol no
- JUNE 21, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Scwimmer...
Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Scwimmer asked Turkey and Russia to sign European Convention of Human Rights protocol no
- JUNE 21, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Oleg Mironov, Russian human rights ombudsman, called...
Oleg Mironov, Russian human rights ombudsman, called on politicians to give up "populist slogans" calling for the death penalty to be restored
- JUNE 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The judicial and public security departments of Jieyang...
The judicial and public security departments of Jieyang city and Jiexi county jointly held a public rally to announce the verdicts for several alleged criminals