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- JUNE 29, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Yasuo Hayashi, a key member of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult,...
Yasuo Hayashi, a key member of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult, was sentenced to death by hanging for taking part in the 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- JUNE 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A convict in a murder case washung to death at the...
A convict in a murder case washung to death at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore
- JUNE 29, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Jamal Deeb Amin, 40, received the death penalty for...
Jamal Deeb Amin, 40, received the death penalty for killing his daughter near Nabatieh in 1999 because he suspected she wanted to marry against his will
- JUNE 29, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Two convicted kidnappers were put to death by lethal...
Two convicted kidnappers were put to death by lethal injection at the Pavon prison in an execution shown live on Guatemalan television
- JUNE 29, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 29, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Jessy San Miguel, 29, of Hispanic origin, was put to...
Jessy San Miguel, 29, of Hispanic origin, was put to death by lethal injection
- JUNE 28, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The death reference of Bangabandhu murder case came...
The death reference of Bangabandhu murder case came up for hearing in the Supreme Court
- JUNE 28, 2000DominicaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court judge Dunbar Cenac sentenced Mwanga...
The High Court judge Dunbar Cenac sentenced Mwanga Freeman, 24, and Leroy Langford, 31, to hang for the 1998 murder of Ossie Charles, 38
- JUNE 28, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Assembly of the CE voted in favour...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the CE voted in favour of the admission of Armenia to the Council
- JUNE 28, 2000AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly voted...
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly voted in favour of the Azerbaijani application for membership to the Council of Europe
- JUNE 28, 2000LiberiaDEATH PENALTY
Sources in Monrovia said 14 top security men loyal...
Sources in Monrovia said 14 top security men loyal to President Charles Taylor were secretly executed on charges of plotting to assassinate the president
- JUNE 28, 2000ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court was to consider an application to...
The Supreme Court was to consider an application to abolish the death penalty
- JUNE 28, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was executed for stabbing a fellow citizen to death
A man was executed for stabbing a fellow citizen to death
- JUNE 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Session court in Chashma handed out a...
An Additional Session court in Chashma handed out a death sentence to Kafait Ullah for several murders and possession of illegal weapons
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to...
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to death by the Haikou Municipal People's Intermediate Court
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court decreed the death penalty on Liu Futian who sold 810 grams of heroin and made an illegal gain of 105,600 yuan
- JUNE 27, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Radkhantapur man [identified only as] Tazemul was...
A Radkhantapur man [identified only as] Tazemul was given the death penalty for burning his pregnant wife to death
- JUNE 27, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen Interior Ministry issued a statement which...
The Chechen Interior Ministry issued a statement which noted that hostages in Russian concentration camps were being systematically beaten up with special lead-core truncheons and tortured with electricity, pulling out nails, crushing limbs, and using gas
- JUNE 27, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Nicole Cheves, Deputy Consul General of Portugal, conveyed...
Nicole Cheves, Deputy Consul General of Portugal, conveyed to Governor George Bush an urgent humanitarian appeal by the European Union on behalf of Mr
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Tan Huijun, Li Changxing, Duan Faxiang, Jiang Zhidong,...
Tan Huijun, Li Changxing, Duan Faxiang, Jiang Zhidong, Pu Shaogang, Wang Wenfu, Zhu Bixun and Zhu Jiazeng were executed in Baise City and Guigang City in Guangxi because they were found guilty of involvement in four drug-related cases
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four major drug criminals who had been sentenced to...
Four major drug criminals who had been sentenced to death by the intermediate courts in Xian and Baoji and whose death sentences had been approved by the Supreme People's Court, were executed in the two cities
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ordered the execution...
The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ordered the execution of eight drug traffickers including Wang Yan (female), Jin Xiaoli (female), Yang Hansheng, Sun Weiyu, Tao Yaocong, Chen Manchun, Wang Weiping, and Wang Zhanping
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Nmber2 Intermediate Court executed the...
The Shanghai Nmber2 Intermediate Court executed the death penalty on two convicted drug traffickers: 36-year old Ma Fenghua and Ma Wenzhong who werefounf guilty of trafficking 5,250 grams of heroin
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court handed...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court handed down death sentences to Ma Xueyun, a drug trafficker, drug smugglers Yan Zai, Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan, the latter two of Burmese nationality, and drug transporters Li Jie and Gong Xiaoying
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed tens of drug traffickers in a synchronised...
China executed tens of drug traffickers in a synchronised operation to dramatise its seriousness about fighting drug-related crime and to mark the International Anti-Drug Day
- JUNE 26, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The "Jihad in Chechnya" web site said that civilians...
The "Jihad in Chechnya" web site said that civilians from the towns of Shali, Shatoy, Argun and Atmikli were allegedly by taken Russian forces from their houses and have not returned
- JUNE 26, 2000BruneiDEATH PENALTY
Brunei Darussalam observed the International Day against...
Brunei Darussalam observed the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
- JUNE 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement...
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement regarding the transfer of Filipino and British nationals serving prison sentences in the two countries
- JUNE 26, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in China pronounced death sentences on on Burmese drug smugglers Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chongqing Number One Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
Chongqing Number One Intermediate People's Court sentenced 24 alleged drug traffickers to death, the Chongqing Daily reported