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- JULY 18, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
A poll conducted by a local newspaper indicated that...
A poll conducted by a local newspaper indicated that 80% of Guatemalans agree with the death penalty - which is also strongly supported by the main business organisations
- JULY 18, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The mother of Rocco Barnabei met with the Minister...
The mother of Rocco Barnabei met with the Minister of Justice Fassino, and was received in his Montecitorio (parliament) study by parliamentary vice-president Alfredo Biondi
- JULY 17, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Toru Toyoda, 32, and Kenichi Hirose, 36, two former...
Toru Toyoda, 32, and Kenichi Hirose, 36, two former leaders of Aum Shinri Kyo, were sentenced to death by hanging for murder and attempted murder for their roles in releasing sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995
- JULY 17, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation...
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner in Yerevan met lawmakers to discuss alternative military service, the abolition of capital punishment and the freedom of conscienc
- JULY 17, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy parliament speaker Gagik Aslanyan speaking at...
Deputy parliament speaker Gagik Aslanyan speaking at a meeting with the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said that people and authorities in Armenia are unanimous in their understanding of the need to bring democrati
- JULY 17, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of prisoners sentenced to death for their...
Relatives of prisoners sentenced to death for their participation in clashes with the Lebanese Army in Dinnieh last January demonstrated outside the Mansouri Mosque in Tripoli
- JULY 17, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
A press conference was held in Rome in which Jane Barnabei,...
A press conference was held in Rome in which Jane Barnabei, mother of death row prisoner Rocco Barnabei, together with Walter Veltroni (leader of the Democratic Left) and Fabrizio Vigni (member of Parliament who has followed the case for years) appealed a
- JULY 16, 2000Puerto RicoDEATH PENALTY
U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Casellas ruled that...
U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Casellas ruled that the death penalty for federal crimes does not apply in Puerto Rico because its people have no vote in federal elections
- JULY 16, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammadreza Rowshan received 3 death sentences after...
Mohammadreza Rowshan received 3 death sentences after he was found guilty of killing three policemen, Ali Kiani, Alibaba Khosravi and Hamid Derafshi
- JULY 16, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Democratic Left Party and Motherland Party have...
The Democratic Left Party and Motherland Party have developed a formula to persuade another ruling partner, the Nationalist Action Party, to accept the abolition of the death sentence from the Turkish Penal Code
- JULY 15, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister Mesut...
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister Mesut Yilmaz has said that a bill to abolish the death penalty was to be put on the agenda in the new legislative term of the Turkish Parliament
- JULY 14, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed by the Post Express that a total of...
It was revealed by the Post Express that a total of 72 Nigerians were executed by the Saudi Arabian government in the past eight years on charges of drug smuggling and armed robbery
- JULY 14, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed three Yemeni men found guilty...
Saudi Arabia executed three Yemeni men found guilty of engaging in homosexual acts and molesting young boys
- JULY 14, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The Cassation Court confirmed death sentences issued to N
The Cassation Court confirmed death sentences issued to N
- JULY 14, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine Bishops' Office on Bioethics said that...
The Philippine Bishops' Office on Bioethics said that the draft bill offering reduced sentences to death-row convicts who donate their kidneys sounded "creative" but was morally defective
- JULY 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Dubai Court confirmed the death sentences passed...
A Dubai Court confirmed the death sentences passed on two Pakistani nationals [identified only as] N
- JULY 14, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Develet Bahceli, deputy prime minister and leader of...
Develet Bahceli, deputy prime minister and leader of the Nationalist Action Party, said that it was too early to abolish capital punishment in Turkey
- JULY 14, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Vice-president of the Italian Senate, Ersilia Salvato,...
Vice-president of the Italian Senate, Ersilia Salvato, wrote to French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in hope that the historic result of the presentation of the resolution on a world-wide moratorium on capital punishment, and its subsequent approval, wou
- JULY 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
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The Beijing No
- JULY 13, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Yasuo Hayashi appealed his death sentence to the Tokyo...
Yasuo Hayashi appealed his death sentence to the Tokyo High Court
- JULY 13, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Albania's National Assembly ratified Protocol 6 of...
Albania's National Assembly ratified Protocol 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights which sees the end of capital punishment in the country
- JULY 13, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Albania's National Assembly ratified Protocol 6 of...
Albania's National Assembly ratified Protocol 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights which sees the end of capital punishment in the country
- JULY 13, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni commuted death sentences...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni commuted death sentences of 16 condemned prisoners by reducing the sentences of 12 of them to life imprisonment and freeing four others
- JULY 12, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Lahore meted out the death sentence to Haji Azam for the murder of Karamat Ali on May 25,1998
- JULY 12, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dang Ngoc Chieu, who was prosecuted for circulating...
Dang Ngoc Chieu, who was prosecuted for circulating fake money in Hai Duong Province was sentenced to death while his two accomplices received life imprisonment
- JULY 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Appeals revoked the sentences...
The Supreme Court of Appeals revoked the sentences passed on Unal Osman Agaoglu and Bunyamin Adanali who were sentenced to death on seven counts of murder for the murder of even students in Ankara in 1978 in a case known as the Bahcelievler massacre
- JULY 12, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Oriel Cecil Joiner, 50, white, was executed by lethal...
Oriel Cecil Joiner, 50, white, was executed by lethal injection
- JULY 11, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitutional Court approved a draft legislation...
The Constitutional Court approved a draft legislation that removes the death penalty from fundamental law
- JULY 11, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Atiya ibn Obaid Atiya, Rajeh ibn Ibrahim Isa and Rajhi...
Atiya ibn Obaid Atiya, Rajeh ibn Ibrahim Isa and Rajhi ibn Hamad Ali were beheaded in Abha after they were convicted of sodomy, transvestitism, same-sex marriage and raping of young boys
- JULY 11, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Shew Padshah was executed in accordance with the verdict...
Shew Padshah was executed in accordance with the verdict passed by the Shari'ah courts for shooting and killing a resident of Qarabagh