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- JUNE 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Keyvan Najafi, convicted of murdering Hossein Soleimani,...
Keyvan Najafi, convicted of murdering Hossein Soleimani, was sentenced to death in Tehran
- JUNE 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Anoushirvan Rezaiee, convicted of murdering Amir Zarei...
Anoushirvan Rezaiee, convicted of murdering Amir Zarei in Autumn 1999, was sentenced to death in Tehran
- JUNE 10, 2000United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
William Hague, the leader of the opposition said in...
William Hague, the leader of the opposition said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that he backed capital punishment, although he recognised that it was unlikely to be restored
- JUNE 10, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Raymond Forni, the speaker of France's National Assembly,...
Raymond Forni, the speaker of France's National Assembly, slammed the death penalty in the United States at a human rights conference
- JUNE 10, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Raymond Forni, the speaker of France's National Assembly,...
Raymond Forni, the speaker of France's National Assembly, slammed the death penalty in the United States and said one-time Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal should not be executed
- JUNE 10, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sa'd Bin-Fatis Bin-Abdallah al-Zahrani was executed...
Sa'd Bin-Fatis Bin-Abdallah al-Zahrani was executed in Al-Mindak Governorate, Al-Bahah region
- JUNE 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abbas Mahmoudi, convicted of a murder that took place...
Abbas Mahmoudi, convicted of a murder that took place in 1994, was executed in public in the village of Shaam Asbi (near Ardebil)
- JUNE 10, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Virtue Party [FP] leader Recai Kutan said that "Ocalan...
Virtue Party [FP] leader Recai Kutan said that "Ocalan must be executed"
- JUNE 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Beijing City No 2 Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Beijing City No 2 Intermediate Court sentenced Liu Chunyang, 29, a university graduate and model, to death, suspended for two years, and confiscated all her property, for running a brothel that earned tens of thousands of yuan a day
- JUNE 9, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
A Jordanian national was executed after pleading guilty...
A Jordanian national was executed after pleading guilty of spying on the Iraqi regime
- JUNE 8, 2000CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Fang Yong, 35, a former bank accountant extradited...
Fang Yong, 35, a former bank accountant extradited by Canada to China, was given the death penalty by the Ningbo People's Intermediate Court for embezzling public funds
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinhua Municipal Intermediate People's Court implemented...
The Jinhua Municipal Intermediate People's Court implemented the death sentence on He Shi and Qiu Xuanming for evading huge amounts of taxes using false value-added tax invoices
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Huang Faxiang, former director of the State Land Resources...
Huang Faxiang, former director of the State Land Resources of Fengdu County, Chongqing Municipality, was executed for grafting more than 15 million yuan (1
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Dandong Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Dandong Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Liaoning sentenced Song Jie and Huang He to death for armed murder in Dandong on December12, 1999
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections,...
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections, authorities in Sichuan province used the method to execute eight people following an order by the Supreme People's Court
- JUNE 8, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Bereaved families of victims and survivors of the subway...
Bereaved families of victims and survivors of the subway gassing blasted the Tokyo District Court for not Inoue Yoshihiro the death penalty
- JUNE 8, 2000EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt promised to help solve a dispute between Bulgaria...
Egypt promised to help solve a dispute between Bulgaria and Libya over the trial of six medical staff accused by Libya of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus who could face the death penalty if convicted
- JUNE 8, 2000NamibiaDEATH PENALTY
Felizberto Toto, 35, was summarily executed by NDF...
Felizberto Toto, 35, was summarily executed by NDF soldiers because he was believed to be a member of the Angolan rebel group Unita
- JUNE 8, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Parliament amended the penal code to substitute the...
Parliament amended the penal code to substitute the death penalty for life imprisonment
- JUNE 8, 2000KenyaDEATH PENALTY
A man who appealed against his eight-year prison sentence...
A man who appealed against his eight-year prison sentence for robbery was instead given a death sentence
- JUNE 8, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Roger James Berget, 39, white, was executed by lethal...
Roger James Berget, 39, white, was executed by lethal injection in the Oklahome State Penitentiary of McAlester
- JUNE 7, 2000TogoDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations announced it would probe the murder...
The United Nations announced it would probe the murder of hundreds of people in Togo two years ago, allegedly by paramilitary forces after 1998 presidential elections
- JUNE 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Taiyuan Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed...
The Taiyuan Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed a death sentence on convicted criminal Li Xiaolong 35
- JUNE 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Because of the spread of AIDS in the Russian, the governor...
Because of the spread of AIDS in the Russian, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, said there should be a referendum in the region about bringing back the death penalty for those who dealt drugs
- JUNE 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Army General Andrei Nikolayev, chairman of the State...
Army General Andrei Nikolayev, chairman of the State Duma lower house of parliament defence committee said that the main authority in Chechnya should be executed by a special envoy of the Russian President in the framework of the direct federal rule
- JUNE 7, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
Bennie Demps, a condemned man who spent more than half...
Bennie Demps, a condemned man who spent more than half his 49 years on Death Row, was executed in Florida
- JUNE 7, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The Fujairah Sharia Court sentenced to death Ali Rashid...
The Fujairah Sharia Court sentenced to death Ali Rashid Sagheer, 40, for shooting a neighbour dead in Masafi in 1999
- JUNE 7, 2000LaosDEATH PENALTY
Bounthanh Thammavong, the leader of the Laotian Executive...
Bounthanh Thammavong, the leader of the Laotian Executive Council for Independence and Democracy, asked Poland for help in preventing the Vietnamese intervention in Laos
- JUNE 7, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Florida's third death by lethal injection went awry...
Florida's third death by lethal injection went awry and was delayed for 33 minutes as technicians struggled to insert a lethal IV into the veins of a 49-year-old killer
- JUNE 7, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Bennie Demps, 49, white, was executed by lethal injection...
Bennie Demps, 49, white, was executed by lethal injection in Florida State Prison, near Starke