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- MARCH 4, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences that...
The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences that had been passed on Balal Moazami, Abbas A
- MARCH 4, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Arango Escobar, Guatemalan Ombudsman for Human Rights...
Arango Escobar, Guatemalan Ombudsman for Human Rights announced that the Guatemalan Consul in Belize had taken steps to allow 61 Guatemalan prisoners, some of whom on death row, held in the Central de Hatyville prison in Belize to be deported back to Guat
- MARCH 3, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Former counterculture guru Ira Einhorn, sheltering...
Former counterculture guru Ira Einhorn, sheltering in France to avoid serving a life term for murdering his girlfriend in America, said he was a symbol of all death row inmates in the U
- MARCH 3, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
- MARCH 3, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to...
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to death for the murder of Abdullah Mohammed Hassan in a dispute over land ownership
- MARCH 3, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Tihomir Blaskic, found guilty by virtue of his individual...
Tihomir Blaskic, found guilty by virtue of his individual and superior responsibility on 3 counts of crimes against humanity, 6 counts of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and 10 counts of violations of the laws or customs of war by Trial Chamber I
- MARCH 3, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Special Anti Terrorist Court Judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri...
Special Anti Terrorist Court Judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri condemned Dhuman Khan to death twice for the murder of two LDA officers, Mian Gull Rukh (Deputy Director LDA) and Chaudhry Mohammad Jahangir (Assistant State Officer) when they came to check the docu
- MARCH 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Former Pakistani Parliamentarian and senior Congress...
Former Pakistani Parliamentarian and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Rasool Kar strongly condemned the excesses of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir and demanded a probe into the Indian brutalities
- MARCH 3, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, on a...
Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, on a visit to Ankara, said that Turkey had made some progress in human rights, however there were still many things to be done in this field
- MARCH 3, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Freddie Lee Wright, 48, black, was executed by electric...
Freddie Lee Wright, 48, black, was executed by electric chair in Hoffman Prison
- MARCH 2, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
In a pre-dawn incursion in a rural Anitioquia county,...
In a pre-dawn incursion in a rural Anitioquia county, paramilitaries massacred eight people
- MARCH 2, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Human rights campaigners in France denounced Governor...
Human rights campaigners in France denounced Governor George W
- MARCH 2, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian Council of Ministers adopted in principle...
The Albanian Council of Ministers adopted in principle Protocol 6 of the Convention on the Defence of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms
- MARCH 2, 2000OmanDEATH PENALTY
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to...
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to death and his nephew to life imprisonment for the fatal stabbing of a man over a land dispute
- MARCH 2, 2000SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH) proposed an...
The Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH) proposed an initiative that would increase punishment for severe criminal offences, in order to stop the upward trend in crime, brutality, and organised crime over the past decade
- MARCH 2, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hossein Arjmandi received two death sentences for murdering...
Hossein Arjmandi received two death sentences for murdering a mother and her son
- MARCH 2, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Charles T
Charles T
- MARCH 1, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tsu District Court sentenced 46 year old Nobuyuki...
The Tsu District Court sentenced 46 year old Nobuyuki Sawamoto, 50 year old Sakae Matsuyama, and Yoshiaki Fukumoto, 49, to death for murdering two Filipinos and robbing them of money and jewellery in Mie Prefecture on December 25, 1998
- MARCH 1, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Odell Barnes was executed by lethal injection at Huntsville...
Odell Barnes was executed by lethal injection at Huntsville prison in Texas
- MARCH 1, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath,...
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath, welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Parliament to abolish the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka at the headquarters...
Russian Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg said that the moratorium on the death penalty remains valid in Russia, and since Chechnya is a part of Russia, the moratorium extends to its territory too
- MARCH 1, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Pavel Krasheninnikov chairman of the legislation committee...
Pavel Krasheninnikov chairman of the legislation committee of the State Duma said he submitted the issue of abrogating capital punishment to the lower house for discussion
- MARCH 1, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty Argentinians including several police officers...
Twenty Argentinians including several police officers are to be tried as accomplices in the 1994 bombing that levelled a Buenos Aires Jewish community centre, killing 86 people and injuring hundreds
- MARCH 1, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said he is determined...
Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said he is determined to take action against suspected Rwandan genocide suspects but will not extradite them because Rwanda continues to impose the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Belgium Foreign Minister Louis Michel said that Belgium...
Belgium Foreign Minister Louis Michel said that Belgium was determined to take action against suspected Rwandan genocide suspects but would not extradite them because Rwanda continues to impose the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000St. Kitts & NevisDEATH PENALTY
An agreement to set up a Caribbean Court of Justice...
An agreement to set up a Caribbean Court of Justice as the region's final court of appeal was discussed during a meeting of leaders from the 15-member regional grouping known as Caricom
- MARCH 1, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath,...
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath, said Hungary welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Parliament to abolish the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Centurion psychiatrist Omar Sabadia lost his appeal...
Centurion psychiatrist Omar Sabadia lost his appeal against his effective 50-year jail term, which he was serving for the 1996 kidnapping and murder of his wife, Zahida Sabadia
- MARCH 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Abdullah ibn Saeed Al-Saeed was beheaded after being...
Abdullah ibn Saeed Al-Saeed was beheaded after being found guilty of raping a five-year-old boy
- MARCH 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sami Manie Al-Shamlan, who was sentenced to be beheaded...
Sami Manie Al-Shamlan, who was sentenced to be beheaded for killing Ali Al-Khaldi, was spared the death sentence after he received a pardon