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- JANUARY 29, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On January 29, Attorneys General of 12 countries, furious...
On January 29, Attorneys General of 12 countries, furious over the new British court decision curbing death sentences, signed a statement in Trinidad advising their governments to withdraw from the Inter-American Human Rights Convention and the UN Covenan
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 29, in a smuggling trial the Huaiyin Municipal...
On January 29, in a smuggling trial the Huaiyin Municipal Intermediate Court in Jiangsu Province gave Huang Ning a death sentence that was suspended for 2 years
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The same day, 21 people were executed in southwestern...
The same day, 21 people were executed in southwestern Chongqing for murder and robbery after a public sentencing ceremony which drew a crowd of three hundred
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 29, authorities in China's southern boomtown...
On January 29, authorities in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a freewheeling special economic zone plagued by drugs, prostitution and organized crime, executed Zhang Guojin and 5 members of his criminal extortion gang shortly after sentencing them
- JANUARY 28, 1999GreeceDEATH PENALTY
On 28 January, a prosecutor in the northern Greek city...
On 28 January, a prosecutor in the northern Greek city of Kavala charged Georgos Skiadopoulos, 23, a Greek sailor, with murdering Julie Scully, 30, a model from Mansfield, New Jersey, cutting off her head and deceiving the police by declaring her missing
- JANUARY 28, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On January 28, the Privy Council, which declined to...
On January 28, the Privy Council, which declined to hear the case two years ago, heard an appeal filed by Indravani Pamela Ramjattan, aged 36
- JANUARY 28, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 28, Yibulayin Simayi, 42, and Abudureyimu...
On January 28, Yibulayin Simayi, 42, and Abudureyimu Aisha, 29, were executed after a public sentencing by the Yili Prefecture Intermediate People's Court
- JANUARY 27, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with its Resolution 1179 adopted on January 27, 1999, considered that the Ukrainian authorities, including the Verkhovna Rada, are responsible to a great extent for the failure to respect the comm
- JANUARY 27, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, two Indonesian men were put to death...
On January 27, two Indonesian men were put to death in the city of Mecca
- JANUARY 27, 1999IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, two Indonesian men were executed in...
On January 27, two Indonesian men were executed in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
- JANUARY 27, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, the Maharashtra cabinet passed a resolution...
On January 27, the Maharashtra cabinet passed a resolution supporting the Central Government's proposal to award the death penalty to those convicted of rape
- JANUARY 27, 1999JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, the Governor-General signed another...
On January 27, the Governor-General signed another death warrant for Lewis
- JANUARY 27, 1999JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, Christopher Brown, 28, who was scheduled...
On January 27, Christopher Brown, 28, who was scheduled to be hanged on January 28, was given a 4-day stay by Justice Ellis
- JANUARY 27, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, the Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou...
On January 27, the Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou city, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, condemned a woman, Wang Hongying, 34, to death for running a prostitution racket
- JANUARY 27, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, Rouzi Keyoumu, 45, was put to deathafter...
On January 27, Rouzi Keyoumu, 45, was put to deathafter the Yili Intermediate People's Court found him guilty of "violent terrorist activities
- JANUARY 27, 1999Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, Pope John Paul sent out a loud and clear...
On January 27, Pope John Paul sent out a loud and clear message to Americans to oppose abortion, resist the destructive evil of racism and put an end to the unnecessary cruelty of the death penalty
- JANUARY 26, 1999Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
On January 26, after his arrival in the United States...
On January 26, after his arrival in the United States from Mexico, the Pope had a brief talk with President Bill Clinton, touching upon Iraq and Cuba
- JANUARY 26, 1999PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
But on January 26 the Supreme Court said the scheduled...
But on January 26 the Supreme Court said the scheduled February 5 execution by lethal injection could proceed because Congress had been given a chance to review a law that reimposed the death penalty in 1994, and had decided not to do so
- JANUARY 26, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On January 26, the Privy Council ruled on constitutional...
On January 26, the Privy Council ruled on constitutional motions brought by Darrin Roger Thomas and Haniff Hilaire, who were both under sentence of death in Trinidad and Tobago, stating "that to carry out the death sentences imposed on the men before the
- JANUARY 25, 1999VietnamDEATH PENALTY
On January 25, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai said he...
On January 25, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai said he wanted fewer death penalties handed down, and dislikes the use of firing squads
- JANUARY 25, 1999JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On January 25, Justice Wesley James dismissed Patrick...
On January 25, Justice Wesley James dismissed Patrick Taylor's and Anthony McLeod's summonses complaining about the inhumane conditions in which they are being kept in prison
- JANUARY 25, 1999MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
On January 25, the independent Moroccan Human Rights...
On January 25, the independent Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) urged the authorities to abolish the death sentence
- JANUARY 25, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 25, the No
On January 25, the No
- JANUARY 23, 1999Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
On January 23, addressing 10,000 Roman Catholics crammed...
On January 23, addressing 10,000 Roman Catholics crammed into the Basilica of Guadalupe, in Mexico, one of the church's most venerated sites, Pope John Paul II appeared to be wagging his finger both at Mexico and the United States, his two hosts on his 85
- JANUARY 23, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 23, Syed Ayub Haider Naqvi alias Chanda,...
On January 23, Syed Ayub Haider Naqvi alias Chanda, a 26-year-old auto-engineer was sentenced to death by a military court in Karachi for his involvement in the murder of Mohammad Ismail Memon, Chairman of the Board of Secondary Education and his driver,
- JANUARY 23, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 23, the Federal Government filed a review...
On January 23, the Federal Government filed a review petition in the Supreme Court urging the Apex Court to vacate its interim decision taken on January 11 that bars executions ordered by military courts established under Art
- JANUARY 22, 1999AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
On January 22, Azerbaijan acceded to the Second Optional...
On January 22, Azerbaijan acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- JANUARY 22, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On January, 22, Military Prosecutor Nasri Lahoud requested...
On January, 22, Military Prosecutor Nasri Lahoud requested the death sentence for Lieut
- JANUARY 22, 1999GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
On January 22, a Guatemala City court handed down 100-year...
On January 22, a Guatemala City court handed down 100-year sentences to each of 4 police detectives, including the former chief of an anti-kidnapping squad, finding them guilty of 2 kidnappings
- JANUARY 21, 1999RussiaDEATH PENALTY
On January 21, Anatoly Pristavkin, a writer and chairman...
On January 21, Anatoly Pristavkin, a writer and chairman of the presidential pardons commission, said it was a struggle to persuade the public of the need to do away with capital punishment