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- MAY 23, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and his son
- MAY 23, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Alireza Karami Kheyrabadi, convicted on charges of...
Alireza Karami Kheyrabadi, convicted on charges of hijacking a passenger plane to Iraq in 1993, was sentenced to death
- MAY 23, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
James Richardson, 32, black, was executed by lethal...
James Richardson, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 23, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The (opposition) AN parliamentary group leader Gustavo...
The (opposition) AN parliamentary group leader Gustavo Selva invited the Italian government to take a firm stand condemning China's attitude to the death penalty
- MAY 22, 2000Solomon IslandsDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged the police service and...
Amnesty International urged the police service and the authorities to halt the spiral of violence and end the suffering and human rights abuses being committed by all parties in the conflict on Guadalcanal
- MAY 22, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Senior government officials said that Sankoh was to...
Senior government officials said that Sankoh was to face trial for murder and treason-two charges which carry the death penalty in Sierra Leone
- MAY 22, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Pierre Sane, secretary-general of London-based Amnesty...
Pierre Sane, secretary-general of London-based Amnesty International, said that Sankoh and other Sierra Leonean alleged war criminals should face trial
- MAY 22, 2000AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Inmates sentenced to death and awaiting execution at...
Inmates sentenced to death and awaiting execution at Batna's Tazoult prison entered their second day of hunger strike to complain against detention conditions
- MAY 22, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
Sri Lanka's police narcotics bureau said it had seized...
Sri Lanka's police narcotics bureau said it had seized 38 kilograms (kg) of heroin, the largest ever haul in the country, considered a major transit point for international drug smugglers
- MAY 22, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chan Choon Wai, a 20-year old Malaysian electrician,...
Chan Choon Wai, a 20-year old Malaysian electrician, failed to have his death sentence overturned by the Court of Appeal
- MAY 22, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
"Swazis believe in justice and letting the punishment...
"Swazis believe in justice and letting the punishment fit the crime," said Justice Minister Maweni Simelane
- MAY 22, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority...
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority and co-director of the Earthrights International (ERI) documented hundreds of cases of rape, execution and confiscation of property carried out by the military, from 1995 to 2000, during the building o
- MAY 21, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and...
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and Moldovan parliaments signed a joint declaration in which the two countries requested a new trial of the Ilie Ilascu case
- MAY 21, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
The foreign policy commissions with the parliaments...
The foreign policy commissions with the parliaments of Moldova and Romania signed a joint declaration in which the two countries expressed their bid to join the EU and request a new trial of the Ilascu case
- MAY 21, 2000Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian military court sentenced Kamal and Husam...
A Palestinian military court sentenced Kamal and Husam Hammad to death in absentia
- MAY 20, 2000SyriaDEATH PENALTY
The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing...
The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing in Jordan illegally and seeking political asylum, said he faced the death penalty if he decided to return to Syria
- MAY 20, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing...
The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing in Jordan illegally and seeking political asylum, said he faced the death penalty if he decided to return to Syria
- MAY 19, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Following a rally held by the Yinchuan Intermediate...
Following a rally held by the Yinchuan Intermediate People's Court to pronounce their sentences, five convicted criminals were taken to the execution ground and executed by a firing squad
- MAY 19, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said that Sankoh,...
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said that Sankoh, who took up arms in 1991, should not be subjected to "mob rule" and that any trial should be fair, and preferably before an international tribunal
- MAY 19, 2000FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes...
Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1979; the last execution was carried out in 1964
- MAY 19, 2000FijiDEATH PENALTY
A coup was staged by George Speight, a mixed race businessman,...
A coup was staged by George Speight, a mixed race businessman, and eight members of the army's Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit (CRWU), who stormed the Fijian Parliament and captured Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, holding him and about 30 other membe
- MAY 19, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
74 people accused of genocide and crimes against humanity...
74 people accused of genocide and crimes against humanity in Commune Gashora were tried in Kiglai Rural Prefecture
- MAY 19, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The Appeals Court upheld the death sentence against...
The Appeals Court upheld the death sentence against a [unidentified] policeman who murdered his two uncles after discovering his brother had secretly married his cousin
- MAY 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mazhar Shah was condemned to death by a District and...
Mazhar Shah was condemned to death by a District and Sessions court in Lala Musa, for gunning down Latif Shah, son of a religious scholar Syed Yaqoob Shah
- MAY 19, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
New Hampshire to abolish the death penalty
New Hampshire to abolish the death penalty
- MAY 19, 2000New HampshireDEATH PENALTY
A bill to abolish the death penalty
A bill to abolish the death penalty
- MAY 18, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesia's first human-rights trial convicted 24 soldiers...
Indonesia's first human-rights trial convicted 24 soldiers and a civilian yesterday of murdering dozens of villagers during a massacre in Aceh's civil war last year
- MAY 18, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Three French former prime ministers accused Teheran...
Three French former prime ministers accused Teheran of rigging the trial of the 13 Iranian Jews
- MAY 18, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch expressed concern about credible...
Human Rights Watch expressed concern about credible reports that government-allied forces in Sierra Leone were torturing and executing suspected members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group responsible for brutal abuses against civilians
- MAY 18, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
On a local radio chat show callers vented their anger...
On a local radio chat show callers vented their anger at the man whose brutal rebel movement had caused so much misery and suffering