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- JANUARY 30, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Members of the government's panel on judicial reform...
Members of the government's panel on judicial reform agreed that a joint judge-jury system should be introduced in criminal trials
- JANUARY 30, 2001MichiganDEATH PENALTY
SJR 2 was introduced to reinstate the death penalty...
SJR 2 was introduced to reinstate the death penalty in Michigan, by allowing for the death penalty for those convicted for first degree murder
- JANUARY 30, 2001OhioDEATH PENALTY
SB 25, was filed by Sen
SB 25, was filed by Sen
- JANUARY 30, 2001MississippiDEATH PENALTY
Mississippi representatives Erik Felming and John Mayo...
Mississippi representatives Erik Felming and John Mayo have each proposed legislation to abolish the death penalty in Mississippi
- JANUARY 30, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's Cabinet endorsed a government-sponsored...
Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's Cabinet endorsed a government-sponsored bill to change the country's method of capital punishment, replacing the traditional gunning-down of convicts on death row with more humane lethal injections
- JANUARY 30, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Naser Zarafshan, lawyer for the families of the nationalists...
Naser Zarafshan, lawyer for the families of the nationalists Dariush and Parvaneh Foruhar and spokesman for the writer Mohammad Puyandeh, stated that "The relatives oppose the death sentence because they do not seek revenge
- JANUARY 30, 2001South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Sen. Land presented a bill (SB 236) to abolish death...
Sen. Land presented a bill (SB 236) to abolish death penalty on juveniles.
- JANUARY 30, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Seven journalists face the death penalty for blasphemy...
Seven journalists face the death penalty for blasphemy after Pakistan's military regime closed down an English-language newspaper for publishing a `highly sacrilegious' reader's letter
- JANUARY 30, 2001DjiboutiDEATH PENALTY
The Yemeni national who hijacked a plane on an internal...
The Yemeni national who hijacked a plane on an internal flight from Sanaa to Taaz last week may face the death penalty if proven guilty by the court judges
- JANUARY 30, 2001South DakotaDEATH PENALTY
A bill to exclude the death penalty for juvenile offenders...
A bill to exclude the death penalty for juvenile offenders (SB 236) was introduced by Sen
- JANUARY 29, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A judge on the central island of Bohol sentenced 12...
A judge on the central island of Bohol sentenced 12 [unidentified] members of a kidnapping gang to death by lethal injection, after finding the 12 guilty of kidnapping a Chinese-Filipino businessman for ransom in 1998
- JANUARY 29, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The European Union's term president, Sweden's Foreign...
The European Union's term president, Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, asked Turkey to complete the political reforms regarding also the abolishment of the death penalty
- JANUARY 29, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
January 29, 20001: about 100 white farmers accompanied...
January 29, 20001: about 100 white farmers accompanied by their children protested outside the Koster Magistrate's Court in the North West where Lazarus Raseroka and Daphnie Mogaswane, two men who allegedly killed a farmer were appearing
- JANUARY 29, 2001JordanDEATH PENALTY
A 24-year-old man, Bilal Mahmud, was sentenced to death...
A 24-year-old man, Bilal Mahmud, was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court after he was found guilty of killing and burning a woman, Kayan Salih, in Irbid on June 23, 2000
- JANUARY 29, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Austrian Member of the European Parliament Hannes Swoboda,...
Austrian Member of the European Parliament Hannes Swoboda, the special rapporteur of the European Parliament for the EU partnership with Turkey, visited Ankara and said that the abolition of the death penalty by 2004 and a stop to capital punishment in th
- JANUARY 29, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Diplomats said that the European Union delegation that...
Diplomats said that the European Union delegation that visited President Emile Lahoud discussed scrapping the death penalty in Lebanon
- JANUARY 29, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Caruthers Alexander was executed for raping and strangling...
Caruthers Alexander was executed for raping and strangling 19-year-old Lori Bruch
- JANUARY 29, 2001UtahDEATH PENALTY
A post-conviction DNA testing bill (SB 172) was introduced...
A post-conviction DNA testing bill (SB 172) was introduced in the Utah Senate by Sen
- JANUARY 29, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senate President Aquilino Q
Senate President Aquilino Q
- JANUARY 29, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Duma member Vladislav Ignatov suggested introducing...
Duma member Vladislav Ignatov suggested introducing capital punishment for drug dealers and corrupt officials
- JANUARY 29, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The Afghan Northern Alliance said that the Taleban...
The Afghan Northern Alliance said that the Taleban herded together civilians from the villages of Bodmoshki, Gardigag and Shahar Nik and executed 500 by firing squad the Yakawlang District earlier in the month
- JANUARY 29, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Religious and civic groups calling for a ban on capital...
Religious and civic groups calling for a ban on capital punishment are receiving crucial support from politicians as a group of lawmakers are seeking to launch a legislation movement to ban the death penalty
- JANUARY 29, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
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January 29, 2001: 12 people sentenced to death for kidnapping, by a a judge on the central island of Bohol.
- JANUARY 28, 2001PolandDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Lech Kaczynski declared his "a staunch...
Justice Minister Lech Kaczynski declared his "a staunch support for the death penalty" and said he would be favourable to the re-introduction of capital punishment in Poland
- JANUARY 27, 2001TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
The chairman of Tanzania's main opposition Party, Ibrahim...
The chairman of Tanzania's main opposition Party, Ibrahim Lipumba of the Civic United Front said at least 280 people had been killed in violence on Zanzibar on January 26 and 27
- JANUARY 27, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Judge Mohammad Reza Aqiqi of the Tehran military court...
Judge Mohammad Reza Aqiqi of the Tehran military court gave death penalty to Ali Roshani, Mahamoud Jafarzadeh and Ali Mohseni three former government agents for the murder of two elderly nationalists, Darioush and his wife Parvaneh Forouhar, and two write
- JANUARY 26, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
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- JANUARY 26, 2001IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Is the death penalty administered fairly? 3/4 of Illinois...
Is the death penalty administered fairly? 3/4 of Illinois residents are concerned that innocent people may have been put to death, according to a new poll
- JANUARY 25, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan executed four men who had been sentenced to...
Pakistan executed four men who had been sentenced to death for the 1991 murders of seven people
- JANUARY 25, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The director of the Australian Institute of Criminology,...
The director of the Australian Institute of Criminology, Dr Adam Graycar, commenting a report on homicide in 2001 Year Book Australia, released by the Bureau of Statistics, said that capital punishment has no effect on the crime rate