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- APRIL 17, 2001San MarinoDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item...
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item 17, the promotion and protection of human rights, Federica Bigi said her country supported any initiatives which aimed at abolishing the death penalty or the application of a moratorium on capital puni
- APRIL 17, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item...
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item 17, the promotion and protection of human rights, Masaru Watanabe said since the European Union was going to submit a draft resolution on the question of the death penalty, Japan wanted to state its po
- APRIL 17, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item...
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item 17, the promotion and protection of human rights, See Chak Mun said that since 1997 similar draft resolutions on the question of the death penalty had been submitted to the Commission calling for a mor
- APRIL 17, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Five Yemenis executed for murder, Saba news agency reported
Five Yemenis executed for murder, Saba news agency reported
- APRIL 17, 2001DEATH PENALTY
CHINA CLAMPS DOWN ON CRIME WITH A WEEK OF ARRESTS AND EXECUTIONS
The Supreme People’s court issued a circular over Easter Weekend requiring that law courts sentence to death serious criminal offenders as they deserve.
- APRIL 16, 2001ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
The Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Galati...
The Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Galati sentenced to death by lethal injection Sherman Lee Rutledge, 29, for the May 1997 murder of Ryan Harris, 21
- APRIL 16, 2001North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Study Finds Evidence of Racial Bias in North Carolina...
Study Finds Evidence of Racial Bias in North Carolina Death Penalty the most comprehensive study ever conducted on the death penalty in North Carolina was released on April 16 by researchers from the University of North Carolina
- APRIL 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Five drug-traffickers, sentenced to death by a revolution...
Five drug-traffickers, sentenced to death by a revolution court were hanged in public in the northeastern city of Birjand
- APRIL 15, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shandong authorities executed 12 people for murder,...
Shandong authorities executed 12 people for murder, armed robbery, fraud and other crimes
- APRIL 13, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Fouad Boulémia, convicted of murdering Abdelkader Hachani,...
Fouad Boulémia, convicted of murdering Abdelkader Hachani, a high ranking member of the Islamic Salvation Front, was sentenced to death by a court in Algiers
- APRIL 13, 2001MarylandDEATH PENALTY
The Maryland Court of Appeals, in denying a request...
The Maryland Court of Appeals, in denying a request to expedite death row inmate Steven Oken's appeals, has effectively placed at least a temporary moratorium on executions
- APRIL 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court issued a circular, requiring...
The Supreme People's Court issued a circular, requiring that law courts take severe and quick legal actions against criminal offenders
- APRIL 12, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Leon Mugesera, 47, an alleged Rwandan war criminal,...
Leon Mugesera, 47, an alleged Rwandan war criminal, temporarily won his appeal against deportation from Canada on but still faces human rights charges here against the ethnic Tutsi minority in his homeland
- APRIL 12, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam President Tran Duc Luong commuted the death...
Vietnam President Tran Duc Luong commuted the death sentences for 13 inmates to life imprisonment
- APRIL 12, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
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- APRIL 12, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee endorsed a...
Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee endorsed a resolution that would allow voters to decide whether to impose a two-year moratorium on executions while the state's death penalty is studied
- APRIL 12, 2001MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin urged leaders...
Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin urged leaders of the separatist Dnestr region to release Ilie Ilascu, the Romanian Parliamentarian they have held on death row for nine years on terrorism charges
- APRIL 12, 2001CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Leon Mugesera, 47, an alleged Rwandan war criminal,...
Leon Mugesera, 47, an alleged Rwandan war criminal, temporarily won his appeal against deportation from Canada on but still faces human rights charges here against the ethnic Tutsi minority in his homeland
- APRIL 12, 2001IrelandDEATH PENALTY
MP Brendan McGahon was the only defender of the death...
MP Brendan McGahon was the only defender of the death penalty in a debate about removing it from the Constitution
- APRIL 12, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Two men were sentenced to death by the Tébessa criminal...
Two men were sentenced to death by the Tébessa criminal court, 630km from Algiers, for the murder of a business man in January 2000
- APRIL 12, 2001BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
Journalists with Botswana Television (BTV) protested...
Journalists with Botswana Television (BTV) protested the decision by authorities to stop the broadcast of a scheduled documentary on Mariette Bosch
- APRIL 11, 2001North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
People who openly proclaimed their Christian faith...
People who openly proclaimed their Christian faith in North Korea risked persecution and death at the hands of government forces
- APRIL 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed 89 convicted criminals as part of its...
China executed 89 convicted criminals as part of its nationwide "strike hard" campaign against organised crime
- APRIL 11, 2001IdahoDEATH PENALTY
Donald Manuel Paradis, 52, was released for not killing...
Donald Manuel Paradis, 52, was released for not killing Kimberly Anne Palmer, 19, in 1981
- APRIL 11, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Somkid Namkaew, a 25-year-old Thai man, was executed...
Somkid Namkaew, a 25-year-old Thai man, was executed for trafficking in methamphetamines
- APRIL 11, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Seven men convicted of separate murders were executed...
Seven men convicted of separate murders were executed by firing squad
- APRIL 11, 2001NevadaDEATH PENALTY
The state Pardons Board temporarily stayed the execution...
The state Pardons Board temporarily stayed the execution of Thomas Nevius to allow for more examinations to determine whether he is mentally retarded
- APRIL 10, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in the Surkhandarya Region sentenced to death...
A court in the Surkhandarya Region sentenced to death Akmal Jumayev after convicting him of robbing and murdering a middle-aged woman
- APRIL 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The No
The No
- APRIL 10, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Hibah Bin-Zulan Bin-Jubran Hurubi, a Saudi resident,...
Hibah Bin-Zulan Bin-Jubran Hurubi, a Saudi resident, was beheaded for raping colleague's wife after threatening her with a knife