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- APRIL 11, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted...
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted of murder, robbery and having illicit sex with an Indonesian maid
- APRIL 11, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Tuscan MPs Fabrizio Vigni and Mauro Vannoni visited...
The Tuscan MPs Fabrizio Vigni and Mauro Vannoni visited death row inmate Rocco Derek Barnabei in Virginia
- APRIL 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Court for Suppression of Terroristic Activitiesin...
A Special Court for Suppression of Terroristic Activitiesin Faisalabad handed out a death sentence to Ghulam Murtaza for murder
- APRIL 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Saeed Heidari, 21, Qassem Hosseini,19, Mohammadreza...
Saeed Heidari, 21, Qassem Hosseini,19, Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Habibollah Eidmorad and Jalil Pourjalai were executed by hanging in Qasr prison, Tehran, on unrelated charges of murder
- APRIL 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Mashallah Shamsol-Vaezin, a pioneer of independent...
Mashallah Shamsol-Vaezin, a pioneer of independent media and editor of a succession of banned titles, was imprisoned for thirty months on the grounds that an article he had published criticizing the death penalty defamed Islam
- APRIL 10, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, the EU term president,...
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, the EU term president, Portugal's Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, and the EU commissioner for enlargement, Guenter Verheugen, staged a joint press briefing at the end of Turkey-EU Association Council
- APRIL 10, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Socialist International appointed the leader of...
The Socialist International appointed the leader of the Democratici di Sinistra (democratic left party, DS) Walter Veltroni, to head the campaign against the death penalty
- APRIL 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Dequ was executed in Fuzhou
Chen Dequ was executed in Fuzhou
- APRIL 9, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Chairman of the Presidential Clemency Commission, writer...
Chairman of the Presidential Clemency Commission, writer Anatoly Pristavkin, said he believed that Russia must adopt a law abolishing capital punishment and then eliminate the related articles of the Criminal Code
- APRIL 9, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
International terrorist Palvannozir Khadzhayev a member...
International terrorist Palvannozir Khadzhayev a member of the extremist organization Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan whose goal was to overthrow the country's constitutional order was extradited to Uzbekistan
- APRIL 9, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
International terrorist Palvannozir Khadzhayev a member...
International terrorist Palvannozir Khadzhayev a member of the extremist organization Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan whose goal was to overthrow the country's constitutional order was extradited from Russia to Uzbekistan
- APRIL 8, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) demanded...
The ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) demanded that opposition candidate, Jung In-bong, withdraw his parliamentary candidacy after they exposed personal records that indicated his involvement in a drug scandal in 1996
- APRIL 8, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
A newly-formed non-governmental organization called...
A newly-formed non-governmental organization called the 'Society Concerned about the Safety of Generations' (Mapeksi) has called on the government to introduce legislation enabling drug dealers to be sentenced to death
- APRIL 8, 2000GhanaDEATH PENALTY
President Jerry John Rawlings granted amnesty to 1,000...
President Jerry John Rawlings granted amnesty to 1,000 prisoners, including two soldiers who were convicted in 1983 and 1985 respectively and sentenced to death for subversion
- APRIL 8, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced...
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced to death one [identified only as] Latif in a murder case
- APRIL 8, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Rev. Pat Robertson, speaking at a symposium on religion...
Rev. Pat Robertson, speaking at a symposium on religion and the death penalty at the College of William and Mary, said: "I think a [death penalty] moratorium would indeed be very appropriate."
- APRIL 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Kong Jia, an unemployed ex-convict was executed in...
Kong Jia, an unemployed ex-convict was executed in Beijing for bludgeoning his parents to death with an iron bar
- APRIL 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Aide of the Russian president Sergei Yastrzhembsky...
Aide of the Russian president Sergei Yastrzhembsky gave the press the details of an April 4 telephone conversation between terrorist Khattab and Movladi Udugov, the chief ideologist of Chechen guerrillas who was currently in the United Arab Emirates
- APRIL 7, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
President Johannes Rau said that the European Union...
President Johannes Rau said that the European Union (EU) constituted a great perspective for Turkey, adding, "The EU is not only a markets union, first of all it is a union of values
- APRIL 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
German President Johannes Rau said that the European...
German President Johannes Rau said that the European Union (EU) constituted a great perspective for Turkey, adding, "The EU is not only a markets union, first of all it is a union of values
- APRIL 6, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
The Appeals Chamber confirmed the sentence against...
The Appeals Chamber confirmed the sentence against Omar Serushago
- APRIL 6, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Suspected paramilitary gunmen executed 21 unarmed residents...
Suspected paramilitary gunmen executed 21 unarmed residents of a small town near the Venezuelan border
- APRIL 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yang Wen, 31, was executed in Taiyuan, the capital...
Yang Wen, 31, was executed in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province for raping two university students and killing a female postgraduate student during a failed sexual assault
- APRIL 6, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved Recommendation 1456 (2000) calling upon the Committee of Ministers to initiate without delay the procedure for suspension of the Russian Federation from its rights of representation in the Counc
- APRIL 6, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The State Duma committee on legislation approved a...
The State Duma committee on legislation approved a bill on the ratification of Protocol 6 of the European Convention on human rights, which provides for capital punishment to be abolished by law in Russia
- APRIL 6, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan...
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan security forces had executed three of the eight Islamists that Jordanian authorities extradited to Libya in January 2000
- APRIL 6, 2000SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The reintroduction of the death penalty is supported...
The reintroduction of the death penalty is supported by 62 percent of Slovaks, which is a drop from previous years, according to a March 10-20 poll carried out by the Slovak Statistics Office's Public Opinion Research Institute (UVVM) among 1,234 responde
- APRIL 6, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
A Ras al-Khaimah sharia court ruled that anyone found...
A Ras al-Khaimah sharia court ruled that anyone found guilty of employing a magician to cast a spell on others will be sentenced to death because the practice violates Islamic law and is therefore blasphemous
- APRIL 6, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Karachi found ousted prime minister Nawaz...
A court in Karachi found ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif guilty of terrorism and hijacking and sentenced him to life imprisonment
- APRIL 6, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan...
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan security forces had executed three of the eight Islamists that Jordanian authorities extradited to Libya in January 2000