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- JULY 29, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A man identified as Abbas, was sentenced to death for...
A man identified as Abbas, was sentenced to death for stabbing Amir Fazli-nejad to death in March, 2000
- JULY 28, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Kiyohide Hayakawa, 51, was sentenced to death by hanging...
Kiyohide Hayakawa, 51, was sentenced to death by hanging for the 1989 murders of anti-AUM lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, his wife Satoko, 29, and their 14-month-old son Tatsuhiko and for his role in building a plant to mass produce the nerve gas used in th
- JULY 28, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Gang members Armen Ter Sahakian and his cousin Alik...
Gang members Armen Ter Sahakian and his cousin Alik Grigorian were sentenced to capital punishment with complete confiscation of property
- JULY 28, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
An army private was sentenced to death by hanging for...
An army private was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of three fellow soldiers at Gulu barracks in northern Uganda
- JULY 28, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A convicted drug trafficker, Sow Siow Yin, a 33 year...
A convicted drug trafficker, Sow Siow Yin, a 33 year old Malaysian woman, was executed at Changi Prison, Singapore
- JULY 28, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Two convicted drug traffickers, Sow Siow Yin, a 33...
Two convicted drug traffickers, Sow Siow Yin, a 33 year old Malaysian woman, and Tan Chwee Heng, 39, were executed at Changi Prison
- JULY 28, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Piers Pigou, a representative of the Community Agency...
Piers Pigou, a representative of the Community Agency for Social Enquiry, spoke at a conference on crime and human rights at the University of the Western Cape
- JULY 27, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The European Union, in a demarche made at the White...
The European Union, in a demarche made at the White House with President Clinton's Chief Counsel Beth Nolan, called on the federal authorities not to break a de facto moratorium on the federal death penalty of almost forty years and to grant Mr
- JULY 27, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
A nation-wide NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll found...
A nation-wide NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll found that, in light of the many innocent inmates released from death row, 63% of voters favored a suspension of the death penalty until questions about its fairness can be studied
- JULY 27, 2000TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Thirty eight year-old Yeng Ming, a Chinese crewman...
Thirty eight year-old Yeng Ming, a Chinese crewman for the 4,450-ton British steamer Caduceus, was executed and 10 others were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment each on charges of affiliation with the Reds
- JULY 27, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
The European Union, in a demarche made at the White...
The European Union, in a demarche made at the White House with President Clinton's Chief Counsel Beth Nolan, called on the federal authorities not to break a de facto moratorium on the federal death penalty of almost forty years and to grant Juan Raul Gar
- JULY 27, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Execution is awaiting at least 20 female and male workers...
Execution is awaiting at least 20 female and male workers from Indonesia (Cianjur) in the Middle East for committing serious crimes, according to Dedeh Saryamah, Vice Chairman of the Cianjur Legislative Assembly
- JULY 27, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
Yemeni national Muhammad Bin-Amin Bin-Mansur was beheaded...
Yemeni national Muhammad Bin-Amin Bin-Mansur was beheaded in Uhud Rafidah (Saudi Arabia) after he was convicted of killing Muhammad Bin-Humaydi Bin-Misfir Al Abbud al-Qahtani
- JULY 27, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Amin Mansour, a Yemeni, was found guilty of...
Mohammed Amin Mansour, a Yemeni, was found guilty of stabbing and shooting to death Mohammed bin Humaidi al-Qahtani
- JULY 27, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ashraf was publicly executed in the football...
Mohammad Ashraf was publicly executed in the football ground of the provincial capital Jalalabad
- JULY 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A mainland court in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province,...
A mainland court in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, sentenced Hong Kong businessman Chu Kam-wing, 49, to death for using fake tax receipts to avoid more than 40 million yuan (HK$36
- JULY 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
An [unidentified] Chinese policeman who shot dead three...
An [unidentified] Chinese policeman who shot dead three people in a dispute over a 12
- JULY 26, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling was executed...
A Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling was executed in Dammam
- JULY 26, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The HCMC People's Court sentenced Tran Thi Hieu, 65,...
The HCMC People's Court sentenced Tran Thi Hieu, 65, former director of Ngoc Thao Co
- JULY 26, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Juan Soria, 33, of Hispanic origin, was executed by...
Juan Soria, 33, of Hispanic origin, was executed by lethal injection
- JULY 26, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Italian Parliament approved a motion against the...
The Italian Parliament approved a motion against the death penalty, which was signed by all political party leaders
- JULY 25, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgaria introduced a legal reform to smooth the way...
Bulgaria introduced a legal reform to smooth the way for one of its lawyers to defend the six Bulgarian medics
- JULY 25, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Former AUM Shinrikyo member Satoru Hashimoto 33, was...
Former AUM Shinrikyo member Satoru Hashimoto 33, was sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court for taking part in the murders of an anti-cult lawyer and his family as well as the fatal poison gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture 1989
- JULY 25, 2000MaliDEATH PENALTY
Cheikh Kanoute, the founder of a Malian sect of followers...
Cheikh Kanoute, the founder of a Malian sect of followers known as the "Bare-footed", and two of his disciples, were sentenced to death by the Bamako criminal court
- JULY 25, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
Pope John Paul asked the governor of the U
Pope John Paul asked the governor of the U
- JULY 25, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed bin Saad al-Ahmadi was found guilty of stabbing...
Ahmed bin Saad al-Ahmadi was found guilty of stabbing his nephew, Osama bin Ali al-Ahmadi, hitting him on the head with a rock and throwing his body in a well, an Interior Ministry statement said
- JULY 25, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Pope John Paul II sent a message to the Governor of...
Pope John Paul II sent a message to the Governor of Virginia in which he urged that Rocco Barnabei not be executed
- JULY 24, 2000EgyptDEATH PENALTY
A criminal court in Alexandria sentenced to death Ali...
A criminal court in Alexandria sentenced to death Ali Metwali, a 27- year-old carpenter, who choked and stabbed to death his would-be mother-in-law, 40-year-old Mahasen Ahmed Sanad, then stole her jewellery estimated at 8,000 Egyptian pounds (2,300 U
- JULY 24, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeal rejected the trio's appeals against...
The Court of Appeal rejected the trio's appeals against their death sentence
- JULY 24, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Istanbul State Security No 3court handed down the...
The Istanbul State Security No 3court handed down the death penalty for "attempting to undermine the constitutional order by use of arms," in the trial of 41 members of the illegal Islamic Movement Organization who were accused of committing a number of h