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- MAY 26, 1999KentuckyDEATH PENALTY
Double murderer Eddie Harper, who after 16 years on...
Double murderer Eddie Harper, who after 16 years on death row said he preferred death over life, was executed by injection on May 26
- MAY 25, 1999BurundiDEATH PENALTY
On May 25, 11 people were summarily executed in Ruziba,...
On May 25, 11 people were summarily executed in Ruziba, in the province of Bujumbura
- MAY 25, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 25, 23 people convicted of crimes including...
On May 25, 23 people convicted of crimes including armed robbery and embezzlement, were executed
- MAY 22, 1999United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
On May 22, the Cassation Court said it would hand down...
On May 22, the Cassation Court said it would hand down a final ruling on May 29 in the case of a Canadian sentenced to death for drug dealing
- MAY 20, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On May 20, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council...
On May 20, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided to recommend that the Assembly should suspend the credentials of the Ukrainian delegation because Ukraine did not respect its commitments on the death penalty
- MAY 18, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, President Kuchma said at a meeting with...
On May 18, President Kuchma said at a meeting with teachers and students of the Institute for Foreign Relations at Kiev National University that "he will never agree" to replacing the death penalty for Onopriyenko with life imprisonment
- MAY 18, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, according to Iranian human rights organizations,...
On May 18, according to Iranian human rights organizations, 3 men identified as Namdar, Faraj and Mojtaba were hanged in Qsar prison in Tehran
- MAY 18, 1999YemenDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, Yahya Ali al-Hakim, his sons Amer and Qassem...
On May 18, Yahya Ali al-Hakim, his sons Amer and Qassem and their cousins Ismail and Yayha al-Hakim were publicly executed
- MAY 18, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, Jiangxi Ye Xiaojun, who killed a policeman...
On May 18, Jiangxi Ye Xiaojun, who killed a policeman during a robbery on March 31, was executed in Jingdezhen City
- MAY 14, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was...
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was executed in the town of Ha'ir, in the Riyad Region, for killing his Saudi sponsor, Milhim Bin Sa'ud Bin Milhim Bin al-Subay'i, by bringing down a large cleaver on his head and other parts of his body d
- MAY 14, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, two Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh...
On May 14, two Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and Shushi Muhammad Taln, and an Indian, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, were executed for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, Indian, was executed...
On May 14, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, Indian, was executed in Saudi Arabia for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, 2 Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and...
On May 14, 2 Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and Shushi Muhammad Taln, were executed in Saudi Arabia for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was...
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was executed in the town of Ha'ir, in Riyad Region of Saudi Arabia for killing his Saudi sponsor, Milhim Bin Sa'ud Bin Milhim Bin al-Subay'i, by bringing down a larger cleaver on his head and other parts o
- MAY 14, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, the Higher People's Court of northeast China's...
On May 14, the Higher People's Court of northeast China's Liaoning Province sentenced 4 persons to death for murdering Li Xianying, the secretary of the Party Committee of Liaoning's Fushun County
- MAY 13, 1999TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan...
On May 13, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan sentenced to death 2 gang leaders, Yusufali Salohov and M
- MAY 13, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On 13 May, according to the local press, Abbas Afradeh,...
On 13 May, according to the local press, Abbas Afradeh, 18 years, was hanged from a crane in public in Bandar Abbas, accused of being a sympathizer of the Mojahedin of the Iranian People
- MAY 13, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, Mohammed Saleem was re-arrested for the...
On May 13, Mohammed Saleem was re-arrested for the same crime for which he had been condemned to death in December 1998 and subsequently released in January 1999
- MAY 13, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, 15 criminals were executed, after being...
On May 13, 15 criminals were executed, after being found guilty of several murders and given death sentences by the military tribunal
- MAY 12, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 12, at least 9 high officials, including the...
On May 12, at least 9 high officials, including the director of Customs at the city of Zhanjiang, were executed in one of the biggest corruption cases
- MAY 12, 1999VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 12, Governor James Gilmore granted his first...
On May 12, Governor James Gilmore granted his first clemency in a capital case after 21 executions to Calvin Swann
- MAY 11, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, the Supreme Court confirmed death sentences...
On May 11, the Supreme Court confirmed death sentences for two Sri Lankans, Murugan, and T
- MAY 11, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, the newspaper Neshat published a statement...
On May 11, the newspaper Neshat published a statement by 325 political and cultural figures, asking the President of Iran for "the public trial of those who have masterminded, organized, planned and perpetrated these horrendous crimes," referring to the m
- MAY 11, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, Alex Gerengan Second Secretary of the Philippines...
On May 11, Alex Gerengan Second Secretary of the Philippines embassy announced that a Kuwaiti court had sentenced Danilo Espino, a Filipino Christian citizen, to death on May 10 for killing his Muslim girlfriend Rocaya S
- MAY 10, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On May 10, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
On May 10, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of international affairs, Alfred Mubanda, received the Norwegian ambassador to Uganda, Arild Oyen, who expressed the same views on the execution of the 28 condemned prisoners as the other memb
- MAY 9, 1999LiberiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 9, Samuel Kofi Woods the former Catholic Justice...
On May 9, Samuel Kofi Woods the former Catholic Justice and Peace [CJP] director said the case of the 13 treason convicts is a test to national commitment to reconciliation and, recalling the execution of 13 former government officials in 1980, said histo
- MAY 8, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
On May 8, Manal Abd al Qabel and his lover Bakr Abd...
On May 8, Manal Abd al Qabel and his lover Bakr Abd al Fattah Mohammad al Kumi were executed in the prison of Tanta in Basse Egypt
- MAY 8, 1999FloridaDEATH PENALTY
On May 8, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in the...
On May 8, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in the case of Keith Brennan that the execution of a defendant who was 16 years old at the time of his crime would be unconstitutional
- MAY 7, 1999CyprusDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on behalf...
On May 7, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on behalf of Cyprus signed Protocol No
- MAY 7, 1999SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Zlatko Aleksovski was found guilty by the...
On May 7, Zlatko Aleksovski was found guilty by the ICTY by virtue of both his individual and superior criminal responsibility on one count of a violation of the laws or customs of war, and sentenced to 2 years' and 6 months' imprisonment by Trial Chamber