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- FEBRUARY 5, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch said that 62 civilians were shot...
Human Rights Watch said that 62 civilians were shot to death in Aldy, in western Grozny when Russian soldiers rampaged through this suburb of Chechnya's capital, calling it the worst massacre of the war in the separatist republic, after Chechen rebels aba
- FEBRUARY 5, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The families of the martyrs staged a demonstration...
The families of the martyrs staged a demonstration to protest the postponement of the execution of the capital punishment for [Kurdish leader] Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 4, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling from two earlier...
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling from two earlier trials sentencing Susumu Kitagawa, 52, to death for assaulting four women and killing two of them between 1983 and 1990
- FEBRUARY 4, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesia's top generals must be imprisoned but not...
Indonesia's top generals must be imprisoned but not executed if found guilty by a tribunal investigating the slaughter on East Timor, according to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta
- FEBRUARY 4, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was beheaded for shooting dead another Saudi...
A man was beheaded for shooting dead another Saudi man after a dispute
- FEBRUARY 3, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three people, convicted of forcing more than 50 women...
Three people, convicted of forcing more than 50 women into prostitution after luring them with promises of factory jobs, were executed
- FEBRUARY 3, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Tokyo requested that Lebanon extradite five Japanese...
Tokyo requested that Lebanon extradite five Japanese Red Army members wanted on international terrorism charges including the 1972 Lod airport attack in Tel Aviv, which saw 26 people murdered
- FEBRUARY 3, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A special court for the suppression of terrorism condemned...
A special court for the suppression of terrorism condemned to death [a person identified only as] Shaukat for abducting a boy, Rashid (11) and committing unnatural offences with him in the area of Ghaziabad in 1999
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six leaders of a Chinese gang which butchered 77 people...
Six leaders of a Chinese gang which butchered 77 people between February 1998 and March 1999 with meat cleavers and scissors in a year-long orgy of rape and mutilation had been executed in Henan province
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three men were put to death in central Shaanxi province...
Three men were put to death in central Shaanxi province for stealing 15 murals from the tomb of an imperial concubine, Wei Guifei, a favourite of Tang dynasty emperor Li Shiming who lived 1300 years ago
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
According to Amnesty International, nineteen other...
According to Amnesty International, nineteen other prisoners were executed in and around Kinshasa between January 28 and February 2, 2000
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he might...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he might offer amnesty to a radical Moslem guerrilla faction because it had not massacred civilians
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A petition calling for the re-introduction of the death...
A petition calling for the re-introduction of the death penalty was handed to Port Alfred magistrate Walter le Grange just before three men accused of the brutal murder of Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead and her 11-year-old daughter appeared in co
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Three former Guatemalan paramilitary men on massacre...
Three former Guatemalan paramilitary men on massacre charges had their death penalty commuted to 50 years imprisonment for lack of direct evidence
- FEBRUARY 1, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
A number of Iraqi officers and soldiers, charged with...
A number of Iraqi officers and soldiers, charged with having contacts with Iraqi opposition, were executed at army Division Four headquarters
- FEBRUARY 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Sessions Judge of Attock,...
The Additional District and Sessions Judge of Attock, Mirza Rafi - u-Zuman meted out the death sentence to Zulfiqar Ahmed of Shakardara, Attock
- FEBRUARY 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Lahore High Court rejected...
A division bench of the Lahore High Court rejected the appeal of Muhammad Aziz and Haroon Rashid against their death sentences
- FEBRUARY 1, 2000PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Testifying at the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee...
Testifying at the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee in the hearing on a bill to impose a 2-year moratorium on the state's death penalty, former state Attorney General Ernie Preate testified in favour of a moratorium, citing the politicisation of the
- JANUARY 31, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Moratorium on executions declared in Illinois
Moratorium on executions declared in Illinois
- JANUARY 31, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe (CE) authorities welcomed the decision...
Council of Europe (CE) authorities welcomed the decision of the Albanian Constitutional Court to abrogate the death penalty
- JANUARY 31, 2000PortugalDEATH PENALTY
The European Union condemned the execution by Uzbekistan...
The European Union condemned the execution by Uzbekistan of six people accused of planting bombs which killed 16 people in Tashkent
- JANUARY 31, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Participants at a security meeting in Kirundo Prefecture...
Participants at a security meeting in Kirundo Prefecture requested that the government amend the law on sexual abuse, requiring that the death penalty be applied to all cases of criminal sexual abuse
- JANUARY 31, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the UN International...
Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), was to seek the extradition to the ICTR in Tanzania of Lieutenant-Colonel Tharcisse Muvunyi, a Rwandan genocide suspect living under temporary asylum in Bri
- JANUARY 31, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The European Union condemned the execution by Uzbekistan...
The European Union condemned the execution by Uzbekistan of six people accused of planting bombs which killed 16 people in Tashkent
- JANUARY 31, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (TRC) staged demonstrations...
Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (TRC) staged demonstrations in Tamil Nadu, demanding the capital punishment awarded to four accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case be carried out at the earliest opportunity
- JANUARY 31, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The National Assembly Standing Committee discussed...
The National Assembly Standing Committee discussed and adopted a resolution on the enforcement of the revised Criminal Code
- JANUARY 31, 2000IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Illinois Governor George Ryan declared a moratorium...
Illinois Governor George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions in his state, pending an investigation into the state's capital punishment system
- JANUARY 30, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Bangladeshi Parliament passed the Women and Children...
The Bangladeshi Parliament passed the Women and Children Repression Prevention Bill 2000 proposed by Sheikh Hasina's government
- JANUARY 30, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) urged Prime Minister...
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) urged Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai to set up an independent committee comprising various neutral parties to look into the storming of the Ratchaburi hospital
- JANUARY 30, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Afghano Ghafour Jami was shot after spending a year...
Afghano Ghafour Jami was shot after spending a year of imprisonment at Lavasanat on a murder conviction