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- FEBRUARY 23, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Jehoash...
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Jehoash Mayanja Nkangi warned that the ministry will not be bullied into changing the death penalty law
- FEBRUARY 23, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Cornelius Goss, 38, black, was put to death by lethal...
Cornelius Goss, 38, black, was put to death by lethal injection
- FEBRUARY 23, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Twenty four lady senators from different Italian political...
Twenty four lady senators from different Italian political formations invited New York senatorial candidate Hilary Clinton to rethink her stand in favour of the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Five Bulgarian nurses, Kristiyana Vulcheva, Nasya Stoicheva,...
Five Bulgarian nurses, Kristiyana Vulcheva, Nasya Stoicheva, Valentina Siropoulo, Valya Chervenyashka, Snezhana Dimitrova and one doctor, Zdravko Georgiev, were charged with intentionally infecting 393 Libyan children with the HIV virus in a Benghazi hosp
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
The Jaffna Magistrate, M
The Jaffna Magistrate, M
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Following the 30 December 1999 Constitutional Court's...
Following the 30 December 1999 Constitutional Court's decision, the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) abolished the death penalty clauses contained in the country's criminal code, criminal code of practice and correctional code replacing it with a maximum sente
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Two men, Sanad ibn Abdullah Khulaif and Atef ibn Mishwah...
Two men, Sanad ibn Abdullah Khulaif and Atef ibn Mishwah Hamdan, were executed in Medina after being convicted of kidnapping and raping a girl
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Faiza bint Hamoud Al-Joufi, a Saudi woman, was beheaded...
Faiza bint Hamoud Al-Joufi, a Saudi woman, was beheaded for killing her husband, Ibrahim ibn Salama Al-Dakheelullah, in Arar
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court handed Bilal Musa, 34, his third...
The Criminal Court handed Bilal Musa, 34, his third death sentence in nine days, convicting him of killing a 28-year-old mother and her infant in March 1997
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court, voting 5-4 Tuesday, rejected a challenge...
The Supreme Court, voting 5-4 Tuesday, rejected a challenge to Alabama's use of the electric chair as the only means of execution
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Terry Melvin Sims, 58, white, was put to death by lethal...
Terry Melvin Sims, 58, white, was put to death by lethal injection
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Following the 30 December 1999 Constitutional Court's...
Following the 30 December 1999 Constitutional Court's decision, the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) abolished the death penalty clauses contained in the country's criminal code, criminal code of practice and correctional code replacing it with a maximum sente
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
Swiss Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss met with Turkish...
Swiss Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem to discuss human rights issues
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
The Ministry of National Defence (MND) denied that...
The Ministry of National Defence (MND) denied that it had ever disclosed any of its intelligence sources in its intelligence reports
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Amnon Cohen, the man who asked to become the first...
Amnon Cohen, the man who asked to become the first Israeli sentenced to death, expressed deep regret and asked his family for forgiveness at the Tel Aviv District Court
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed...
Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed support for the demand by the CE to repeal the death penalty as capital punishment in Armenia
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh met with Turkish...
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh met with Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit and Foreign Minister Ismail Cem during a visit to Ankara
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources...
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Foundation wanted the Supreme Court to order Mugabe's office to release the reports of two commissions of inquiry he appointed: one of these covered mass executions, disappearances, illegal arrests
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
61 percent of Czechs want the death penalty to be reintroduced...
61 percent of Czechs want the death penalty to be reintroduced while 26 percent disagree with it, according to a poll conducted by the IVVM polling agency
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Mohammadi's conviction for the riots in the summer...
Akbar Mohammadi's conviction for the riots in the summer of 1999, at Tehran University, was overruled by the Supreme Court following strong International pressure in Mohammadi's favour
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh,...
The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, visited the Human Rights Association, where she was greeted by its former president, Akin Birdal
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
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- FEBRUARY 20, 2000AustriaDEATH PENALTY
Austria's new government including the radical Freedom...
Austria's new government including the radical Freedom Party, led by the controversial Joerg Haider, was not well received by the European Union's other 14 member nations, who condemned the new coalition government with an unprecedented unanimity
- FEBRUARY 20, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
Pope John Paul II appealed to Texas Governor, George W
Pope John Paul II appealed to Texas Governor, George W
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Seo Yoon Bum's five-year-old grandson was killed when...
Seo Yoon Bum's five-year-old grandson was killed when a car plowed through a group of pedestrians in Seoul in 1991
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A group of 92 South Korean legislators presented a...
A group of 92 South Korean legislators presented a bill to the National Assembly that called for capital punishment sentences to be abolished and be replaced with life terms in prison sentences
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
According to a Gallup survey conducted in December,...
According to a Gallup survey conducted in December, 43% of South Koreans oppose the death penalty (50% were in favour), up from just 20% in 1994
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Yuri Chaika said Russia has 610 criminals...
Justice Minister Yuri Chaika said Russia has 610 criminals sentenced to lifetime incarceration, although jails for lifetime imprisonment have place only for 300, others were sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen rebels passed their second death sentence...
The Chechen rebels passed their second death sentence in a week on Vladimir Putin via the Internet
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Ukrainian newspaper 'Segodnya' said Chechen field...
The Ukrainian newspaper 'Segodnya' said Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev "or his supporters" had announced a fatwa on an Internet website identified as www