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- MARCH 6, 2001New JerseyDEATH PENALTY
A bill to permit DNA testing of old evidence in order...
A bill to permit DNA testing of old evidence in order to establish innocence was introduced (AB 2178)
- MARCH 5, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Speaker of the House Luciano Violante declared:...
The Speaker of the House Luciano Violante declared: "We are working in unison with the Presidents of France and Germany towards a European bill against the death penalty"
- MARCH 5, 2001New YorkDEATH PENALTY
It was tabled, after much debate, Democratic legislator...
It was tabled, after much debate, Democratic legislator William Kinne's proposal to ask Gov
- MARCH 5, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A large group of women, members of the Phoenix community...
A large group of women, members of the Phoenix community converged on the Verulam Regional Court, north of Durban and staged a placard protest in front of the court entrance morning while three suspects appeared in connection with March 1 gang rape of a s
- MARCH 5, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
In a poll on whether former President Joseph Estrada...
In a poll on whether former President Joseph Estrada is guilty, 171 respondents of the total 300 interviewed (57%) believed him guilty while only 58 (19
- MARCH 5, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stressed a need for...
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stressed a need for the death penalty against drug producers and traffickers
- MARCH 4, 2001MalawiDEATH PENALTY
Four death row inmates escaped from the Zomba Maximum...
Four death row inmates escaped from the Zomba Maximum Security Prison
- MARCH 4, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The Rutherford Institute Urges President Bush to Declare...
The Rutherford Institute Urges President Bush to Declare a Death Penalty Moratorium In a letter to President Bush, John W
- MARCH 4, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The Head of the Palestinian Military Intelligence Service...
The Head of the Palestinian Military Intelligence Service Staff Major-General Musa Arafat al-Qudwah stressed that in order to counter Israeli intelligence penetration, "it was necessary increase some of the sentences up to the death penalty to deter othe
- MARCH 4, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Moise Nyarugabo, a rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy...
Moise Nyarugabo, a rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) spokesman, said that Congolese authorities were rounding up people in Kinshasa whom they suspected of being involved in the assassination of President Laurent Kabila in January
- MARCH 3, 2001IraqDEATH PENALTY
A Kurdish source said the military authorities in Baghdad...
A Kurdish source said the military authorities in Baghdad executed an army major-general, Tariq Sa'dun, a relative of the incumbent Interior Minister Muhammad Zimam Abd-al-Razzaq
- MARCH 3, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Five Rwandans accused of genocide and other crimes...
Five Rwandans accused of genocide and other crimes against humanity committed in 1994 have been sentenced to death by the western Ruhengeri court in the country
- MARCH 2, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook ordered an urgent review...
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook ordered an urgent review of all cases of Britons facing the death penalty in foreign jails and has strengthened government policy so diplomats and ministers can intervene early in cases in an effort to prevent executions
- MARCH 2, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Foreign Ministry of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria...
The Foreign Ministry of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria expressed its deep dissatisfaction with the lack of a proper reaction on the part of the world community to Russia's continuing atrocities against the Chechen people, after the discovery, on Februar
- MARCH 2, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xu Jie and Du Jiansheng, two officials from the poor...
Xu Jie and Du Jiansheng, two officials from the poor southwestern province of Guizhou were executed for embezzling 72
- MARCH 2, 2001Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
The US ambassador to Ivory Coast, Georges Mu, said...
The US ambassador to Ivory Coast, Georges Mu, said that the human rights situation markedly improved in 2000 in Cote d'Ivoire
- MARCH 2, 2001CameroonDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 2, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Seven men were sentenced to death for drug trafficking...
Seven men were sentenced to death for drug trafficking and circulating counterfeit U
- MARCH 2, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The annual report of the American State Department...
The annual report of the American State Department described the death sentences given to smugglers as being tantamount to human rights' violations in Iran
- MARCH 1, 2001PortugalDEATH PENALTY
The Portuguese Minister of Justice shrugged off an...
The Portuguese Minister of Justice shrugged off an official US report accusing Portugal of human rights abuses
- MARCH 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Judges sent 12 rapists, 10 bribers (see news of 15...
Judges sent 12 rapists, 10 bribers (see news of 15 March) and 8 murderers to death row in March 2001, increasing to 1,720 the tally of Filipinos condemned to death
- MARCH 1, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Robert William Clayton was executed by injection for...
Robert William Clayton was executed by injection for the 1985 killing of a Tulsa woman
- MARCH 1, 2001VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Thomas Wayne Akers, 31, who pleaded guilty to killing...
Thomas Wayne Akers, 31, who pleaded guilty to killing 24-year-old Wesley Smith during a robbery in Roanoke, was pronounced dead at 9:18 p
- MARCH 1, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
John Alba was sentenced to death for the 2nd time for...
John Alba was sentenced to death for the 2nd time for the 1991 fatal shooting of his wife
- MARCH 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Reza-Chupari and Daryush Keshavarz , both...
Mohammed Reza-Chupari and Daryush Keshavarz , both Iranians, were hunged in public for murdering three police officers and drug trafficking in the central city of Abadeh
- MARCH 1, 2001IraqDEATH PENALTY
Three officers in the Iraqi air forces, Sa'eed 'Abd...
Three officers in the Iraqi air forces, Sa'eed 'Abd al-Majid 'Abd al-Ilah, Fawzi Hamed al-'Ubaidi and Fares Ahmad al-'Alwan, were executed by firing squad
- MARCH 1, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The government is considering a move to speed up the...
The government is considering a move to speed up the execution of drug offenders by eliminating the appeals process for Royal clemency
- MARCH 1, 2001BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Motaleb Hawlader was hanged in the Jessore prison,...
Motaleb Hawlader was hanged in the Jessore prison, in Barisal district, for killing his wife
- FEBRUARY 28, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors are investigating whether a top Broward...
Prosecutors are investigating whether a top Broward County sheriff's detective made up evidence against Frank Lee Smith, a Fort Lauderdale man who spent 14 years on Florida's death row for a murder he did not commit
- FEBRUARY 28, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
A federal judge in Knoxville issued a stay for death...
A federal judge in Knoxville issued a stay for death row inmate Stephen Michael West, less than 10 hours before his scheduled execution by electrocution