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- OCTOBER 5, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania's Passport General Directorate announced that...
Romania's Passport General Directorate announced that Ilie Ilascu and his wife Nina were granted Romanian citizenship
- OCTOBER 5, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court upheld the Jakarta High Court's 1997...
The Supreme Court upheld the Jakarta High Court's 1997 death sentence for Harnoko Dewantono, alias Oki, for a triple murder committed in the United States between 1991 and 1992, a court official said
- OCTOBER 5, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
At the request of the Sierra Leonean government, the...
At the request of the Sierra Leonean government, the United Nation's Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on August 14, 2000 to set up a special court for Sierra Leone
- OCTOBER 4, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Dawit Yohanes, the Speaker of the House of People's...
Dawit Yohanes, the Speaker of the House of People's Representatives called upon the international community to condemn the atrocities being committed against Ethiopian civilians by the Eritrean government at a "regional seminar of experts on the preventio
- OCTOBER 4, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions Judge, Muhammad Razzaq Nawaz,...
An Additional Sessions Judge, Muhammad Razzaq Nawaz, handed down the death sentence to Mohammed Azam for murder
- OCTOBER 4, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said that there was...
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said that there was no ruling that the death sentence of a prisoner would automatically be commuted to life imprisonment if the state failed to execute the sentence within a year
- OCTOBER 3, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
6 soldiers arrested in connection with an armed attack...
6 soldiers arrested in connection with an armed attack on the army ruler General Robert Guei's house on September 18 have disappeared
- OCTOBER 2, 2000United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty for murder was abolished in Britain...
The death penalty for murder was abolished in Britain on December 18, 1969
- OCTOBER 2, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Iraqi sources said that authorities executed eight...
Iraqi sources said that authorities executed eight prisoners on charges of forming an opposition organization and defacing several murals depicting Iraqi President Saddam Husayn
- OCTOBER 2, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Dullah Omar, architect of the amnesty process came...
Dullah Omar, architect of the amnesty process came face to face with Ferdi Barnard, the apartheid assassin who tried to gun him down in 1989
- OCTOBER 2, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Bin-Muhammad Bin-Abd-al-Muhsin Al Qasim was executed...
Ahmad Bin-Muhammad Bin-Abd-al-Muhsin Al Qasim was executed in Al-Qatif after he was convicted of murdering Sabri Bin-Ahmad Bin-Muhammad Al Abd-al-Aziz
- OCTOBER 2, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Three men accused of murder and robbery were executed...
Three men accused of murder and robbery were executed in Kandahar, capital of the southern Kandahar Province
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A bill that sought to strengthen the government's drive...
A bill that sought to strengthen the government's drive against international and domestic terrorists was filed in the Senate
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional Sessions court in Khanewal condemned...
The Additional Sessions court in Khanewal condemned two brothers to death for murder
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shamsher Ali was given the death sentence by an Additional...
Shamsher Ali was given the death sentence by an Additional District and Session court for murdering Sajjad Hussain
- OCTOBER 2, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
In his address to the parliament at the start of the...
In his address to the parliament at the start of the new legislative year President Ahmet Necdet Sezer urged that constitutional reforms be carried out in order to see the death penalty abolished
- OCTOBER 2, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Recai Kutan, the leader of the Virtue Party (FP) said...
Recai Kutan, the leader of the Virtue Party (FP) said in a press conference at FP Headquarters that Turkey needs to make a key decision on the abolition of the death penalty if it to enter the EU, stating "my personal tendency is the abolishment of capita
- OCTOBER 1, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
In October 2000, U
In October 2000, U
- OCTOBER 1, 2000DEATH PENALTY
After 17 years in prison, DNA tests confirmed Earl...
After 17 years in prison, DNA tests confirmed Earl Washington's innocence, and he was granted an absolute pardon by Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore for the 1982 rape and murder of a Culpeper County woman
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A session of the EU/China "dialogue on human rights"...
A session of the EU/China "dialogue on human rights" took place in Beijing
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Ghassan al-Atiyah and Mustafa al-Ani were sentenced...
Ghassan al-Atiyah and Mustafa al-Ani were sentenced to death in absentia on charges of "meeting Israelis" during a meeting that was held in Cairo in August to examine the prospects of the peace process
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Following an attack by the National Liberation Forces,...
Following an attack by the National Liberation Forces, a Hutu-armed opposition group, on a military post in the Kamenge area in northern Bujumbura, government soldiers of the Bataillon Para carried out reprisal killings in the Kamenge, Gasenyi, Gituro are
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Janjana Arana, an Indian, was executed in Al-Dawadimah...
Janjana Arana, an Indian, was executed in Al-Dawadimah in the Riyadh area after having been convicted of murdering Saudi national Salim Bin-Naffa Bin-Nuwayfi al-Mutayri
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian man, Janjana Arana, was executed in Saudi...
An Indian man, Janjana Arana, was executed in Saudi Arabia for murdering a Saudi man with a hatchet after a quarrel
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Seven members of a "terrorist network" in Iran "sponsored...
Seven members of a "terrorist network" in Iran "sponsored by the Iraqi Baath party" were sentenced to death, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At least 14 more criminals have been executed, in keeping...
At least 14 more criminals have been executed, in keeping with the mainland tradition of getting tough on crime before key holidays, like the National Day
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Takamatsu High Court made a rare decision to uphold...
The Takamatsu High Court made a rare decision to uphold a lower court ruling that sentenced 73-year-old Haruno Sakamoto to death for the murder of her husband and an employee of the bar she ran
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Appeal Court Judge Jaran Pukditanakul broadly outlined...
Appeal Court Judge Jaran Pukditanakul broadly outlined key areas that the National Human Rights Commission needed to address, including a study of whether existing laws and government rules and regulations infringed on or contained elements which violate
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The Uzbek Supreme Court in the capital Tashkent sentenced...
The Uzbek Supreme Court in the capital Tashkent sentenced one man to death and another 13 to prison terms of up to 24 years for their part in Islamic separatist fighting in November 1999 that claimed 11 lives
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of black protesters gathered at the court,...
Hundreds of black protesters gathered at the court, hoping to catch a glimpse of Pieter Odendaal, 44, a white South African accused of tying a black employee to the back of his pick-up truck and then dragging him five kilometres to his death