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- SEPTEMBER 12, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
The right-wing Sinhalese party Sinhala Urumuya, one...
The right-wing Sinhalese party Sinhala Urumuya, one of the first few parties to make its campaign issues known to the public, released its political manifesto
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man convicted of drowning a fellow Saudi by pushing...
A man convicted of drowning a fellow Saudi by pushing him into a sewage ditch after they drank alcohol was executed in Riyadh
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The mayor of Rome, Francesco Rutelli, Minister for...
The mayor of Rome, Francesco Rutelli, Minister for Parliamentary relations, Patrizia Toia, former European Commissioner Emma Bonino, Parliamentary vice president Alfredo Biondi and MP Fabrizio Vigni all sent messages to Governor Gilmore via a telematic po
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chengdu City Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Chengdu City Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liu Zhongshan, former director of the Sichuan Provincial Communications Department and concurrently chairman of the board of the Sichuan Highway Construction and Development General Company, to death
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
France, as the current president of the European Union,...
France, as the current president of the European Union, called on the Governor of Virginia, James Gilmore, to spare the life of Rocco Derek Barnabei, scheduled to be executed on September 14 in Virginia
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000SwedenDEATH PENALTY
The Swedish and French ambassadors to the United States...
The Swedish and French ambassadors to the United States and Gunter Burhoudt, the European Commission's representative in Washington, asked Virginia Governor James Gilmore for a stay of execution for Derek Rocco Barnabei
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Noruzian-Tabrizi was executed by hanging in...
Hassan Noruzian-Tabrizi was executed by hanging in the eastern city of Mashhad for murdering his pregnant wife in 1997
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
France, as the current president of the European Union,...
France, as the current president of the European Union, called on the Governor of Virginia, James Gilmore, to spare the life of Rocco Derek Barnabei, scheduled to be executed on 14 September in Virginia
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Colosseum was illuminated to mark the abolition...
The Colosseum was illuminated to mark the abolition of the death penalty in the Ivory Coast
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Jalil Badali, Ezatollah Badali and Sedqali Shokati...
Jalil Badali, Ezatollah Badali and Sedqali Shokati were hanged after Iran's Supreme Court approved the death sentences imposed on them
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The killing of Suai militia leader, Olivio Moruk in...
The killing of Suai militia leader, Olivio Moruk in West Timor, was reportedly linked to the Indonesian military
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Nigerian man for trying to...
Saudi Arabia executed a Nigerian man for trying to smuggle cocaine into the country
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Farhan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Radi was executed in Riyad...
Farhan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Radi was executed in Riyad after he was convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman, attempted kidnapping, forgery and impersonation of public officials
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian, Tawfiq Bin-Tasin Bin-Muhammad, was executed...
A Nigerian, Tawfiq Bin-Tasin Bin-Muhammad, was executed in Jiddah Governorate after he was convicted of drug smuggling
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Omer Izgi, the acting Chairman of the Nationalist Action...
Omer Izgi, the acting Chairman of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) parliamentary group said that the MHP would not allow the abolition of the death penalty because of conditions in Turkey
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Aung San Suu Kyi, special rapporteur to Burma in 1998...
Aung San Suu Kyi, special rapporteur to Burma in 1998 and head of the National League for Democracy, Myanmar's main opposition party, said that "extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the practice of torture and forced labour" are commonplace vio
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A July poll of Carolinians by the Charlotte Observer-MBTV...
A July poll of Carolinians by the Charlotte Observer-MBTV News Carolinas Poll found: only 45% preferred the death penalty as the appropriate penalty for those convicted of murder; 62% said they favoured a moratorium of executions until it is determined th
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Fabrizio Vigni and Mauro Vannoni, MPs for the Democratic...
Fabrizio Vigni and Mauro Vannoni, MPs for the Democratic Left, together Parliamentary vice president Alfredo Biondi of Forza Italia, visited Rocco Barnabei in Virginia and pressured Governor Gilmore
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A July poll of Carolinians by the Charlotte Observer-MBTV...
A July poll of Carolinians by the Charlotte Observer-MBTV News Carolinas Poll found: only 45% preferred the death penalty as the appropriate penalty for those convicted of murder; 62% said they favoured a moratorium of executions until it is determined th
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for a 35-year-old...
The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for a 35-year-old man convicted of killing four people in four prefectures between 1984 and 1991
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the leader of the Ugandan-backed...
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the leader of the Ugandan-backed Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC), accused government troops of executing 51 civilians in a northeastern town before rebel troops captured it last week
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Bosnia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International...
Bosnia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
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- SEPTEMBER 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Seven PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] prisoners were...
Seven PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] prisoners were sentenced to death at a trial at the Erzurum DGM (State Security Court)
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2000VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
Fifty-one percent of the Venezuelans back the application...
Fifty-one percent of the Venezuelans back the application of death penalty in this country to reduce high crime rate, according to soundings by the Encuestadora Roxon polling firm
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2000São Tomé & PríncipeDEATH PENALTY
Sao Tome signed the Convention Against Torture and...
Sao Tome signed the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the 1st Optional Protocol to the ICCPR and the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2000PolandDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed that the US failed to inform Polish...
It was revealed that the US failed to inform Polish authorities of the arrest and trial of Grzegorz Madej, a Polish citizen in Illinois, on rape and murder charges in 1981 as required by the 1963 Vienna Convention and the US Polish 1972 Bilateral Conventi
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The chairman of the Supreme Court of Appeal Sami Selcuk...
The chairman of the Supreme Court of Appeal Sami Selcuk described the death penalty as "a primitive punishment" which "does not give the right to the convicted to return to the society again"
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The shari'ah court convicted Ali Bin-Muhammad Bin-Abdallah...
The shari'ah court convicted Ali Bin-Muhammad Bin-Abdallah al-Sharif of murdering another Saudi national, Muhammad Bin-Sultan Bin-Fayiz al-Buqmi and he was sentenced to death
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Chinese and Taiwanese residents in Newcastle in northern...
Chinese and Taiwanese residents in Newcastle in northern KwaZulu-Natal took to the streets to protest against the murder of local Taiwanese businessman Shin-Chih Liao, who was shot dead at a factory in Field Street