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- MARCH 13, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court condemned Aiyub Ali, 27, to death for strangling...
A court condemned Aiyub Ali, 27, to death for strangling Munirul Islam of Arpara village in Bagha thana on December 16, 1997
- MARCH 13, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Eugenio Manuvakola, president of breakaway UNITA accused...
Eugenio Manuvakola, president of breakaway UNITA accused UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi of ordering the execution of General Altino Sapalalo Bock, the former chief of staff of UNITA's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola [FALA], and Generals Tarzan and B
- MARCH 13, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Djergenia, who is prosecutor-general of the unrecognized...
Djergenia, who is prosecutor-general of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, has written to UN Special Representative Dieter Boden denying Georgian media allegations that three Georgian prisoners of war have been executed in Abkhazia's Dranda prison
- MARCH 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A murderer [identified only as] Kabeer was given capital...
A murderer [identified only as] Kabeer was given capital punishment by an additional district and sessions court in Quetta
- MARCH 13, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Lai Chau gave a death sentence...
The People's Court in Lai Chau gave a death sentence to Luong Van Pan, a Laotian, for drug trafficking in November 1998
- MARCH 13, 2000LaosDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Lai Chau, Vietnam, gave a death...
The People's Court in Lai Chau, Vietnam, gave a death sentence to Luong Van Pan, a Laotian, for drug trafficking in November 1998
- MARCH 12, 2000SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Shireh Hasan Ahmad was executed publicly by a firing...
Shireh Hasan Ahmad was executed publicly by a firing squad in Jowhar (south-central Somalia) for killing a woman, Saynab Muhammad, in Gaaleed Village on February 27, 2000
- MARCH 11, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven criminals were executed in Tibet recently for murder
Seven criminals were executed in Tibet recently for murder
- MARCH 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Sukkur sentenced to death...
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Sukkur sentenced to death Ali Dhandho in a case of kidnapping for ransom
- MARCH 10, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The prime minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham declared...
The prime minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham declared his personal opposition to the death penalty but said he does not propose to impose his own moral code and conscience on society
- MARCH 10, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem said in an interview with...
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem said in an interview with that the inclusion of the death penalty in Turkish Penal Code constitutes an impediment for Turkey's membership to the European Union (EU) and Turkey is aware of that fact
- MARCH 9, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court rejected...
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court rejected an appeal against a lower court ruling and upheld a 1997 ruling by the Naha District Court that found Hideo Zamami, 46, guilty of murdering two plainclothes policemen in 1990
- MARCH 9, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult (Supreme...
Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult (Supreme Truth Sect), stood in court for the 148th time on charges of masterminding the March 20, 1995 gas attack
- MARCH 9, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
The exiled Iraqi Communist Party accused President...
The exiled Iraqi Communist Party accused President Saddam Hussein's government of killing 58 prisoners held in solitary confinement, burying the bodies of 14 convicted of "political charges" at al-Zahedi cemetery south of Baghdad, and handing over the bod
- MARCH 9, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeal confirmed a death sentence against...
The Court of Appeal confirmed a death sentence against Kampala businessman Johnson Kamya Wavamunno convicted of murder and robbery by the High Court last year
- MARCH 9, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman was sentenced to death for murdering her husband
A woman was sentenced to death for murdering her husband
- MARCH 9, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hussein Abedini, a member of the foreign affairs committee,...
Hussein Abedini, a member of the foreign affairs committee, said Iranian clerics had carried out some 120,000 executions since 1978, secretly or publicly, and that 700 people had been executed since the beginning of 1999
- MARCH 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Changqing, 48, former Jiangxi Province Deputy Governor,...
Hu Changqing, 48, former Jiangxi Province Deputy Governor, was executed in the provincial capital of Nanchang
- MARCH 8, 2000AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
Eldar Zeynalov said that over that period, nearly 50...
Eldar Zeynalov said that over that period, nearly 50 prisoners had died before the death penalty was executed
- MARCH 7, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
President Kim Dae-jung said he was highly appreciative...
President Kim Dae-jung said he was highly appreciative of French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin for his role in saving his life when he was sentenced to death by a Korean military tribunal in 1980
- MARCH 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen command disseminated official data on losses...
The Chechen command disseminated official data on losses of the Chechen and Russian sides during fighting since the beginning of the Russian aggression
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions judge Zawar Ahmed...
Additional District and Sessions judge Zawar Ahmed condemned to death a woman [identified only as] Robina for murder
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Special Anti Terrorist Court judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri...
Special Anti Terrorist Court judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri handed out the death sentence to [a person identified only as] Ishtiaq in an abduction cum sodomy case
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Anti Terrorism Court Judge Sukkur Liaquat Hussain imposed...
Anti Terrorism Court Judge Sukkur Liaquat Hussain imposed the death sentence on Rustam and Raza Mohammad, found guilty of the murder of Bashir Ahmed Langah and Hyder Bux Langah
- MARCH 7, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met for talks with...
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met for talks with his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharrazi and with Khatami
- MARCH 7, 2000IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
A poll by the Chicago Tribune shows that support for...
A poll by the Chicago Tribune shows that support for the death penalty among registered voters in Illinois has fallen to 58%, down from 76% in August 1994 and 63% last year
- MARCH 6, 2000BahrainDEATH PENALTY
On March 6, 2000, Sheikh Hamad Bin `Issa Al Khalifa...
On March 6, 2000, Sheikh Hamad Bin `Issa Al Khalifa succeeded his late father Sheikh `Issa Bin Salman Al Khalifa as amir
- MARCH 6, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
The architect Hasib Aslan who designed Saddam's living...
The architect Hasib Aslan who designed Saddam's living quarters in Tikrit, Hillah and A'zamiyah, was arrested and imprisoned in Harithiyah prison, where he was executed on the charge of disclosing secret information on Saddam's palaces
- MARCH 6, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Graham MacIntosh, a KwaZulu-Natal MP, recommended that...
Graham MacIntosh, a KwaZulu-Natal MP, recommended that the party's federal council call on government to establish a commission to investigate the re-imposition of the death penalty
- MARCH 4, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Razmik Azarian, chairman of the Chamber of Appeals...
Razmik Azarian, chairman of the Chamber of Appeals on criminal and military cases, on the question of the abolition of the death penalty said that in his opinion this issue should be solved by a national referendum