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- JANUARY 22, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Sen. Helfrick introduced the following death penalty-related...
Sen. Helfrick introduced the following death penalty-related bills: SB 23 to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty; SB 25 to impose a temporary suspension of the death penalty; and SB 29 to prohibit prosecutor
- JANUARY 22, 2001IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The Illinois Supreme Court's new rules for handling...
The Illinois Supreme Court's new rules for handling capital cases are among the most progressive in the country, death penalty experts said
- JANUARY 22, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A Texas death-row inmate deserves a new trial because...
A Texas death-row inmate deserves a new trial because his lawyer slept through long stretches of the man's original trial, a defense lawyer argued today as a federal appeals court reconsidered the 17-year-old Houston-area case
- JANUARY 22, 2001MinnesotaDEATH PENALTY
Bill is introduced to establish death penalty
Bill is introduced to establish death penalty
- JANUARY 21, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Wazir bin Zarif Shinwari, an Afghan man, was beheaded...
Wazir bin Zarif Shinwari, an Afghan man, was beheaded in the western city of Jiddah in Saudi Arabia
- JANUARY 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court People announced that who...
The Supreme People's Court People announced that who are engaged in spying activities, including stealing, detecting, purchasing or leaking state secrets in China will face also the death penalty
- JANUARY 21, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Wazir bin Zarif Shinwari, an Afghan man, was beheaded...
Wazir bin Zarif Shinwari, an Afghan man, was beheaded in the western city of Jiddah in Saudi Arabia
- JANUARY 21, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The issue of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty...
The issue of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty has been under wide discussion
- JANUARY 20, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
In Paris police blocked demonstrators protesting against...
In Paris police blocked demonstrators protesting against the death penalty in the United States at the same time that George W
- JANUARY 20, 2001Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
An Alabama man once in line to become the first person...
An Alabama man once in line to become the first person executed by the federal government since 1963 -- and the first condemned under the drug kingpin statute -- had his death sentence set aside by President Clinton, who changed it to life in prison witho
- JANUARY 20, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A spokesman for newly-installed Philippines president...
A spokesman for newly-installed Philippines president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said that Philippines leader Joseph Estrada faces the death penalty on corruption charges
- JANUARY 20, 2001DEATH PENALTY
PHILIPPINES
January 20, 2001: former President Joseph Estrada risks the death penalty for corruption.
- JANUARY 19, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that Taleban...
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that Taleban had executed at least 100 civilians after recapturing an area of central Afghanistan early in January, 2001
- JANUARY 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liao Buhuang and Wu Tongzhu, two men who abducted 154...
Liao Buhuang and Wu Tongzhu, two men who abducted 154 women and two children and made 840,000 yuan from selling them to people in the richer eastern provinces were also executed
- JANUARY 19, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Condemned murderer Erskine Leroy Johnson might not...
Condemned murderer Erskine Leroy Johnson might not have to stay on death row much longer because the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for him
- JANUARY 19, 2001IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
In an opinion, the Illinois Supreme court ordered a...
In an opinion, the Illinois Supreme court ordered a new hearing for a DuPage County man sentenced to death in the 1986 murder of an Aurora woman
- JANUARY 19, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A judge sent Robert Bloom Jr
A judge sent Robert Bloom Jr
- JANUARY 19, 2001South DakotaDEATH PENALTY
A judge sentenced an Alaska man to death by lethal...
A judge sentenced an Alaska man to death by lethal injection for last year's brutal slaying of 19-year-old Chester A
- JANUARY 19, 2001DelawareDEATH PENALTY
A federal appeals court judge criticised 2 colleagues...
A federal appeals court judge criticised 2 colleagues for denying a death-row inmate's appeal
- JANUARY 19, 2001DEATH PENALTY
CHINA
January 19, 2001: other four men executed for abducting and selling women and children. Two more sentenced to death for murder and poisoning.
- JANUARY 18, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zheng Mingyue, Zheng Mingliang, Liu Jiuwei and Han...
Zheng Mingyue, Zheng Mingliang, Liu Jiuwei and Han Chenggui, all male farmers from Siyang County of Jiangsu Province, were executed in Suqian City of east China's Jiangsu Province for organizing an underground gang who abducted, raped and sold women in Yu
- JANUARY 18, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Dion Athanasius Smallwood, 31, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p
Dion Athanasius Smallwood, 31, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p
- JANUARY 18, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Alvin Urial Goodwin, 37 was pronounced dead at 6:22 p
Alvin Urial Goodwin, 37 was pronounced dead at 6:22 p
- JANUARY 18, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
[photographer] Oliviero Toscani commenting on the postponement...
[photographer] Oliviero Toscani commenting on the postponement of the execution of North Carolina death row inmate Bobby Lee Harris, said "I hope he gets a commutation of his sentence, or even a pardon
- JANUARY 18, 2001DEATH PENALTY
CHINA
January 18, 2001: four men were executed in Suqian City.
- JANUARY 18, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
An old saying bandied about in courthouses holds that...
An old saying bandied about in courthouses holds that a defendant who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client, but Akeem Muhammad's foolishness won him a chance to escape the death penalty for his conviction in a 1995 Broward County murder
- JANUARY 17, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein, on criticism...
PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein, on criticism of the Palestinian judiciary by Western and domestic legal parties on the executions policy, the justice minister said: "Our people are in a state of war, which has been launched against them, and we are
- JANUARY 17, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in...
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in Iran were executed, state radio reported
- JANUARY 17, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Mary Jane Ramos, a Filipino domestic helper, was saved...
Mary Jane Ramos, a Filipino domestic helper, was saved from execution in a decision issued by the Ras Al Khaima court
- JANUARY 17, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romanian Senate passed the extradition bill sponsored...
Romanian Senate passed the extradition bill sponsored by Government