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- JUNE 15, 2000SyriaDEATH PENALTY
Syrian authorities arrested two suspects in the killing...
Syrian authorities arrested two suspects in the killing of University Military Training Department Commander, Major General Khalil Ibrahim al-Mustafa, who was stabbed to death in his Damascus apartment
- JUNE 15, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Molla Nasrollahi, Ali Rad, 27, Abbas Dasht-Peyman,...
Molla Nasrollahi, Ali Rad, 27, Abbas Dasht-Peyman, 22, and M
- JUNE 15, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
William Clifford Bryson, 29, black, was put to death...
William Clifford Bryson, 29, black, was put to death by lethal injection
- JUNE 15, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Paul Nuncio, 32, of Latin-American origin, was executed...
Paul Nuncio, 32, of Latin-American origin, was executed by lethal injection
- JUNE 15, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
At her weekly Justice Department news briefing, U
At her weekly Justice Department news briefing, U
- JUNE 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Zhanjiang court sentenced to death Zhang Zhenlian,...
A Zhanjiang court sentenced to death Zhang Zhenlian, 40, for issuing 72 copies of false value added specialized tax invoices with a total value of 175m yuan involving taxes of 29
- JUNE 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Vice-Minister of Justice Duan Zhengkun said that since...
Vice-Minister of Justice Duan Zhengkun said that since China introduced its legal aid system in late 1996, 400,000 disadvantaged people, have benefited from the government-funded programmes
- JUNE 14, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
Senior Roman Catholic Church figures closed ranks in...
Senior Roman Catholic Church figures closed ranks in support of Bishop Augustin Misago, accused of helping to plan the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
- JUNE 14, 2000QatarDEATH PENALTY
Three Indians were executed for murder under Islamic...
Three Indians were executed for murder under Islamic Sharia law
- JUNE 14, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Nigerians, Erivesto Anderson, 30, Michael Philip,...
Three Nigerians, Erivesto Anderson, 30, Michael Philip, 28, and Lawrence Osayi Erabor, 42, were sentenced to death by the High Court for committing the murders at a shop in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman on Feb 20, 1997
- JUNE 14, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
In the name of fighting Islamic terrorism Uzbek authorities...
In the name of fighting Islamic terrorism Uzbek authorities imprisoned at least 5,000 people, Uzbek human rights advocates said
- JUNE 14, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
John Burks, 44, black, was executed by lethal injection
John Burks, 44, black, was executed by lethal injection
- JUNE 14, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The president of the Tuscan region, Claudio Martini,...
The president of the Tuscan region, Claudio Martini, decided to appeal to the Virginia state governor, James S
- JUNE 13, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
More than 100 Romanian journalists, attending the "Forum...
More than 100 Romanian journalists, attending the "Forum of the Romanian Press Everywhere" appealed to the Presidents, Governments and Parliaments of Romania, the Republic of Moldova and the Ukraine for a firm intervention to obtain the release of Romania
- JUNE 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fang Yong, 35, who hid in Canada for nine years, was...
Fang Yong, 35, who hid in Canada for nine years, was given the death penalty by the Ningbo People's Intermediate Court for embezzling about 1
- JUNE 13, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian government approved the draft-law
The Albanian government approved the draft-law "On ratifying Protocol VI of the European Human Rights Convention
- JUNE 13, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The 1st Ankara DGM [State Security Court] sentenced...
The 1st Ankara DGM [State Security Court] sentenced DHKP-C [Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front] member Cemalettin Polat to death for "attempting to change the constitution of the Turkish Republic through the force of arms"
- JUNE 13, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Five suspects were sentenced to death in the case on...
Five suspects were sentenced to death in the case on the terrorist organization TKP/ML [Turkish Communist Party/Marxist Leninist-Turkish Workers and Peasants]
- JUNE 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liao Zhi, 38, to death for manufacturing 730 kg of the narcotic "ice"
- JUNE 12, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Mistakes in capital cases
Mistakes in capital cases
- JUNE 12, 2000PolandDEATH PENALTY
Lech Kaczynski, the Justice Minister, said he believed...
Lech Kaczynski, the Justice Minister, said he believed that there was a need for tougher sentences
- JUNE 12, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A murder convict whose black warrants had been issued...
A murder convict whose black warrants had been issued was pardoned by the heirs of the deceased and set free by the District and Sessions Judge in Gujranwala
- JUNE 12, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Qatar said it had executed three Indians for murder,...
Qatar said it had executed three Indians for murder, the first time the Gulf Arab state has imposed the death penalty in over three decades
- JUNE 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Industry and Commerce Minister Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu...
The Industry and Commerce Minister Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu said that given the current conditions in Turkey, it was too early to abolish the death sentence
- JUNE 12, 2000KenyaDEATH PENALTY
21 university students were charged with robbery with...
21 university students were charged with robbery with violence, an offence which carries the death penalty as a maximum sentence, following riots at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
- JUNE 12, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Major Yan Myint, deputy commander of Myanmar's 224th...
Major Yan Myint, deputy commander of Myanmar's 224th Battalion, arrested nine alleged traffickers at Ban Nakongmoo while they were attempting to cross into Thailand's Chiang Mai Province and confiscated drugs, according to a Thai official
- JUNE 12, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Thomas Wayne Mason, 48, white, was put to death by...
Thomas Wayne Mason, 48, white, was put to death by lethal injection
- JUNE 11, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Wahhab Abdallah Tuta'il, an Indian man convicted of...
Wahhab Abdallah Tuta'il, an Indian man convicted of smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia, was beheaded
- JUNE 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for shooting dead...
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for shooting dead Abdul Hamid of Chak in a dispute over water in March 1997
- JUNE 11, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling drugs into the kingdom