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- MARCH 28, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The Federal Court dismissed an appeal by construction...
The Federal Court dismissed an appeal by construction worker Sam Hong Choy
- MARCH 28, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Mamuka Antia, 31, an ethnic Georgian guerrilla imprisoned...
Mamuka Antia, 31, an ethnic Georgian guerrilla imprisoned in the self-declared republic of Abkhazia committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in Dranda, the minister of internal affairs of Abkhazia, Almazbei Kchach, said on April 3
- MARCH 28, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Executive Secretary Ronaldo B
Executive Secretary Ronaldo B
- MARCH 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ghulam Hussain was condemned to death by a Special...
Ghulam Hussain was condemned to death by a Special Anti Terrorist court in Lahore
- MARCH 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Kerala High court meted out...
A division bench of the Kerala High court meted out the death sentence to "Ripper Chacko", 54, for the gruesome murder of a five-member family, including three children, in the Idukki district in August 1988
- MARCH 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Subash Singh Thakur, kingpin of a breakaway faction...
Subash Singh Thakur, kingpin of a breakaway faction of the Dawood Ibrahim gang, was given the death sentence for organising a deadly shoot-out in the JJ hospital seven years previously
- MARCH 27, 2000FinlandDEATH PENALTY
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja said that the use of the death penalty was a serious human rights problem, which jeopardized, interalia, the right to life and the right to freedom from
- MARCH 27, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
At the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for...
At the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign affairs Milo, said that, in passing from the phase of emergency to that of longterm development, Albania had been making perceptible progress in implementing human rights by establishing the rul
- MARCH 27, 2000SpainDEATH PENALTY
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Juan Matutes, stated that the right to life was something which could not be renounced
- MARCH 27, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Pretoria High Court sentenced Farao Ramaposha,...
The Pretoria High Court sentenced Farao Ramaposha, a 20-year-old gardener from Zimbabwe, to 25 years in prison for stabbing a Laudium mother of three to death in August 1998
- MARCH 27, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal...
The government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal from the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- MARCH 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology declared as...
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology declared as detrimental to 'Shariat' a Lahore court verdict convicting serial child killer Javed Iqbal to death by strangulation, suffering the same fate as his victims
- MARCH 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned Riaz Akhtar...
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned Riaz Akhtar and Nawaz to death for an abduction cum rape case
- MARCH 27, 2000DenmarkDEATH PENALTY
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights, Foreign Affairs Minister Helveg Petersen said that the Commission on Human Rights should take a firm stand on the abolition of the death penalty
- MARCH 26, 2000MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Speaker Manuel B
Speaker Manuel B
- MARCH 25, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
The Texas Criminal Defence Lawyers Association called...
The Texas Criminal Defence Lawyers Association called on Governor Bush to impose a moratorium on executions in Texas
- MARCH 24, 2000VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
President Hugo Chavez ruled out that the government...
President Hugo Chavez ruled out that the government planned to institute the death penalty or life sentence as a means of coping with this problem of spiralling crime
- MARCH 24, 2000MongoliaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Committee met to consider Mongolia`s...
The UN Human Rights Committee met to consider Mongolia`s fourth periodic report on compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- MARCH 24, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
At its annual congress in Centurion, the right-wing...
At its annual congress in Centurion, the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party said that the death penalty would be reinstated and carried out in public under an Afrikaner government
- MARCH 24, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Appeals Chamber increased the final sentence for...
The Appeals Chamber increased the final sentence for Zlatko Aleksovski to seven years' imprisonment
- MARCH 24, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Khaled Fadghoush and Mansour Ali Ahmad were beheaded...
Khaled Fadghoush and Mansour Ali Ahmad were beheaded for kidnapping a seven-year-old girl
- MARCH 24, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Estrada declared an 11 month moratorium on...
President Estrada declared an 11 month moratorium on 18 out of 959 death convicts awaiting execution by lethal injection out of respect for the world-wide celebration of the Jubilee Year
- MARCH 24, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore headed by...
A Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore headed by judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri condemned two men [identified only as] Zulifqar and Nasir to death in a rape cum murder case
- MARCH 23, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Judge Ahmad Moualem rejected a death sentence appeal...
Judge Ahmad Moualem rejected a death sentence appeal from 25-year-old Mohammed Abdul Halim Abbarah, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Walid Jbaili in the Chouf
- MARCH 23, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Kahi and Mohammad Noushin were sentenced to...
Hassan Kahi and Mohammad Noushin were sentenced to death for murdering Dr
- MARCH 23, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Kelly Lamont Rogers 31, black, was executed by lethal...
Kelly Lamont Rogers 31, black, was executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma State Penitentiary
- MARCH 22, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Clashes between tribal gunmen and the emergency forces...
Clashes between tribal gunmen and the emergency forces and detachments of Fida'iyin ended in the city of Rumaythah in southwestern Iraq with the execution of 14 gunmen corned by Saddam's forces
- MARCH 22, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Governor of Kemerovo region and presidential candidate...
Governor of Kemerovo region and presidential candidate Aman Tuleyev said that the moratorium on capital punishment must be annulled in Russia considering that Russia should not keep Chechen bandits like Salman Raduyev in prisons
- MARCH 22, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Buba Bello Kare Garke Jangebe, a Moslem man described...
Buba Bello Kare Garke Jangebe, a Moslem man described as a notorious cow thief, had his right hand chopped off from the wrist