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- MAY 17, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Circuit Judge Peter Dearing sentenced to death James...
Circuit Judge Peter Dearing sentenced to death James Belcher, 41, for the 1996 death of 29-year-old Jennifer Embry
- MAY 17, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
San Joaquin County Judge Michael Garrigan sentenced...
San Joaquin County Judge Michael Garrigan sentenced Wesley Shermantine Jr
- MAY 17, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Only a handful of California prisoners are taking advantage...
Only a handful of California prisoners are taking advantage of a new state law allowing them to use DNA testing to try to prove their innocence, according to the attorney general's office
- MAY 16, 2001AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
A new law "On extraditing criminals" adopted by the...
A new law "On extraditing criminals" adopted by the Milli Maclis [parliament] states that "in case of death penalty, a criminal can be extradited only if the demanding country gives enough guarantees that the punishment will not be carried out
- MAY 16, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The court in Zhoushan City in east China's Zhejiang...
The court in Zhoushan City in east China's Zhejiang Province found that a woman, Miao Saixian, 59, cheated 46 people out of a total of 6
- MAY 16, 2001PolandDEATH PENALTY
The European Union Commission and ambassadors of Sweden...
The European Union Commission and ambassadors of Sweden and Belgium have appealed to the governor of Illinois to grant clemency to a Polish citizen awaiting the death sentence for the murder of a Chicago woman
- MAY 16, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union Commission and ambassadors of Sweden...
The European Union Commission and ambassadors of Sweden and Belgium have appealed to the governor of Illinois to grant clemency to a Polish citizen awaiting the death sentence for the murder of a Chicago woman
- MAY 16, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A South Korean group of government, religious and business...
A South Korean group of government, religious and business leaders presented the UN High Commissioner for Refugees with a petition bearing 11 million signatures that seeks to improve the lot of North Koreans who say they fled their homeland to escape fami
- MAY 16, 2001BurundiDEATH PENALTY
About 20 people were handed sentences ranging from...
About 20 people were handed sentences ranging from 15 years' imprisonment to capital punishment from the Ngozi criminal court (northern Burundi) for "involvement in massacres" in northern Burundi after the assassination of the first democratically-elected
- MAY 16, 2001MaineDEATH PENALTY
The House rejected by a 111-29 vote a proposed legislation...
The House rejected by a 111-29 vote a proposed legislation to reinstate the death penalty for people convicted of killing children 6 years old or younger
- MAY 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A 38-year-old Iranian woman, identified only by her...
A 38-year-old Iranian woman, identified only by her first name, Robabeh, was sentenced to be stoned to death under Iran's Islamic law for murdering her husband
- MAY 16, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Dimitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration,...
Dimitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration, said the administration is planning to introduce juries before the end of 2002
- MAY 16, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
People sentenced for any criminal offence would be...
People sentenced for any criminal offence would be able to petition a court for a DNA analysis if there is reasonable probability the evidence would clear them or shorten their sentences, under legislation approved by a Senate panel
- MAY 15, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yiyang Municipal People's Court in Hunan Province...
The Yiyang Municipal People's Court in Hunan Province sentenced 12 alleged drug traffickers to death after the Yiyang municipal police smashed a Guangdong-Hunan drug-trafficking gang and arrested 42 suspects
- MAY 15, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Branch 1601 of the criminal court ordered the amputation...
Branch 1601 of the criminal court ordered the amputation of a young man's right hand fingers and condemned him to death, the Javan daily reported
- MAY 15, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Nguyen Dinh Loc stated that: "Each...
Justice Minister Nguyen Dinh Loc stated that: "Each year, we have around 200 death sentences, particularly sentences for drug crimes, yet the number of these crimes still increase
- MAY 15, 2001GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis met...
The Parliamentary Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis met the head of the French delegation of the OSCE assembly, Michel Voisin, in Athens
- MAY 15, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
An AustralSCAN survey shows Australians would approve...
An AustralSCAN survey shows Australians would approve a referendum on capital punishment
- MAY 15, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Clive Stafford-Smith, a US lawyer fighting the death...
Clive Stafford-Smith, a US lawyer fighting the death penalty, arrived in Melbourne helping to launch the group Reprieve Australia, to campaign against the death penalty
- MAY 15, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The watchdog group Human Rights Watch urged the United...
The watchdog group Human Rights Watch urged the United States, European Union and United Nations to make Russia investigate a mass grave site discovered in the rebel Chechen Republic in February
- MAY 15, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
At a conference organized by the Université Saint Joseph...
At a conference organized by the Université Saint Joseph Law School to discuss the death penalty in Europe, Italian Ambassador Guiseppe Cassini cited Cesare Beccaria's essay, "On Crimes and Punishments" (1764) questioning whether the death penalty is usef
- MAY 14, 2001North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A judge has temporarily blocked the pending execution...
A judge has temporarily blocked the pending execution of Robert Bacon Jr
- MAY 14, 2001ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
A bill introduced by Sen
A bill introduced by Sen
- MAY 14, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
EP Glyn FORD, of the Party of European Socialists called...
EP Glyn FORD, of the Party of European Socialists called for the death sentence on Timothy McVeigh to be commuted to life imprisonment
- MAY 14, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Chechen soldiers reported that a traitor was killed...
Chechen soldiers reported that a traitor was killed in Argun because he disclosed the location of a Chechen group during a fight in the same town on May 7
- MAY 14, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The EU General Affairs Council welcomed the Democratic...
The EU General Affairs Council welcomed the Democratic Republic of Congo's vote in favour of the UN Commission on Human Rights resolution on the question of the death penalty, and urged the government of the DRC to work on internal legislation in the spir
- MAY 14, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
A man who specialized in car thefts was sentenced to...
A man who specialized in car thefts was sentenced to death by Purwokerto District Court for murdering a lawyer in March
- MAY 14, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court imposed a death sentence on a 31-year-old...
The Supreme Court imposed a death sentence on a 31-year-old man convicted of murdering his lover and her husband in a plan to get insurance money
- MAY 14, 2001ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
The Arkansas House Judiciary Committee blocked Sen
The Arkansas House Judiciary Committee blocked Sen
- MAY 14, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Hussein Ahmed al-Ariqi executed by firing...
Muhammad Hussein Ahmed al-Ariqi executed by firing squad in Sana'a for the murder of Hamda Murshid Tahir al-Hamdani