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- JANUARY 21, 1999PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
On January 21, defense lawyers asked the Supreme Court...
On January 21, defense lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the ruling
- JANUARY 21, 1999JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On January 21, Attorney General A
On January 21, Attorney General A
- JANUARY 20, 1999PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
On January 20, trial judge Thelma Ponferrada set February...
On January 20, trial judge Thelma Ponferrada set February 5 as the date for Echegaray's execution but ordered prison officials not to divulge it to him until just hours before his execution by lethal injection at the National Bilibid Prison in Manila
- JANUARY 20, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 20, the Shantou Intermediate People's Court...
On January 20, the Shantou Intermediate People's Court handed down the death sentence to Lin Jingchuan, skipper of the Yongzaihong No
- JANUARY 19, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, according to an article in the weekly...
On January 19, according to an article in the weekly magazine Iran, Amrollah (Hamid) Raiisi was hanged in the main square of Nahavand for drug trafficking, but Raiisi also seems to have been a sympathizer of the Iranian Mojahedin of the Iranian People
- JANUARY 19, 1999PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, after a marathon 10-hour session, the...
On January 19, after a marathon 10-hour session, the House of Representatives approved a resolution by Rep
- JANUARY 19, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, Deputy Interior Minister Vatana Asavahame...
On January 19, Deputy Interior Minister Vatana Asavahame in response to an appeal for abolition made by Amnesty International said: "Capital punishment is still needed in order to deter criminals from committing crimes, and the Corrections Department is s
- JANUARY 19, 1999South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, former rugby strongman Louis Luyt, who...
On January 19, former rugby strongman Louis Luyt, who now heads the Federal Alliance, said crime was reaching crisis proportions in South Africa and challenged the statistics released by Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi's office, which pointed
- JANUARY 19, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, 6 people were executed in Beijing for...
On January 19, 6 people were executed in Beijing for murder and robbery
- JANUARY 18, 1999AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
On January 18, the Bureau of the Council of Europe...
On January 18, the Bureau of the Council of Europe issued a statement in Paris reminding Albania of its commitments as a Member State of the Council to abolish the death penalty
- JANUARY 18, 1999LithuaniaDEATH PENALTY
On January 18, Lithuania signed Protocol No
On January 18, Lithuania signed Protocol No
- JANUARY 18, 1999PolandDEATH PENALTY
On January 18, more than three-quarters of Poles favored...
On January 18, more than three-quarters of Poles favored the restoration of the death penalty, Poland's leading polling center said
- JANUARY 16, 1999ItalyDEATH PENALTY
On 16 January 1999, before the Italian authorities...
On 16 January 1999, before the Italian authorities had decided to grant or deny him political asylum, Ocalan left for Russia again
- JANUARY 16, 1999TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
On January 16, Ocalan left Italy in search of a country...
On January 16, Ocalan left Italy in search of a country that would take him in
- JANUARY 16, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 16, Military Court-4 sentenced Ali Nawaz...
On January 16, Military Court-4 sentenced Ali Nawaz Khoso of Shikarpur to death
- JANUARY 15, 1999AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, thousands of people watched in Kabul...
On January 15, thousands of people watched in Kabul as a Taliban tank knocked over a 15-foot brick wall, sending it crashing down onto a 60-year-old man, Shuma Khan, convicted of sodomy for the attack on a 12-year-old boy in a hotel in Maidan Shahr, some
- JANUARY 15, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, Singapore hanged two men for drug trafficking
On January 15, Singapore hanged two men for drug trafficking
- JANUARY 15, 1999BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, Gwara Brown Motswetla, 28, and Tlhabologang...
On January 15, Gwara Brown Motswetla, 28, and Tlhabologang Phetolo Maauwe, 30, two men condemned to death in 1995, won an eleventh hour stay of execution because Justice Reynolds in an interim ruling said that the 4-year delay in carrying out the sentence
- JANUARY 15, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, the Higher People's Court of southwest...
On January 15, the Higher People's Court of southwest China's Yunnan Province established a special court to deal with the growing number of drug-related cases
- JANUARY 15, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, Gao Yunliao, a farmer from Henan's Nanzhao...
On January 15, Gao Yunliao, a farmer from Henan's Nanzhao county, was given the death sentence and was executed in central China's Henan Province for attempting to steal a statue of the Buddha dating to the Tang Dynasty
- JANUARY 14, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On 14 January, Vice President of the Supreme People's...
On 14 January, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court Liu Jiachen awarded medals of honor to the Guangdong High Court and the Guangzhou Intermediate Court, for sentencing Hong Kong gangster Cheung Tze-keung to death in December 1998, a case that dre
- JANUARY 13, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 13, Li Yubao, an unemployed worker from...
On January 13, Li Yubao, an unemployed worker from Anhui Province, was executed in Shanghai after being convicted of killing on February 12, 1998 a Shanghai passenger with a knife during a quarrel at Huainan Railway Station
- JANUARY 12, 1999MaliDEATH PENALTY
On January 12, the Bamako Criminal Court ruled that...
On January 12, the Bamako Criminal Court ruled that Mali's ousted dictator, Moussa Traorè, his wife Mariam and her brother Abramane Doua Cissoko were guilty of illegally enriching themselves from state coffers to the tune of 202 million CFA francs ($357,5
- JANUARY 11, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 11, the Supreme Court halted executions...
On January 11, the Supreme Court halted executions ordered by military courts in Karachi until it ruled on their validity
- JANUARY 10, 1999Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
On January 10, Prime Minister Bill Skate said the killing...
On January 10, Prime Minister Bill Skate said the killing of a prime-ministerial staff member Mark Tigat on January 9, during a robbery, would have an impact on the Prime Minister's Department, because he was a well- respected member of the staff
- JANUARY 10, 1999PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
On January 10, Cardinal Jaime Sin, Manila's Archbishop...
On January 10, Cardinal Jaime Sin, Manila's Archbishop and one of the most influential leaders in the largely Roman Catholic country, urged the people to seek guidance from the Vatican's teachings opposing the death penalty
- JANUARY 10, 1999SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
On January 10, an Islamic court based at the former...
On January 10, an Islamic court based at the former Ifka Xalan Shaambo building sentenced Abdullahi Mustaf Salad to death for shooting dead two girls, Sadiyo Dahir Hashi, 22, and Maryam Abdi Ibrahim, 18
- JANUARY 9, 1999CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Jaturun Siripongs, a 43-year-old Thai national, practicing...
Jaturun Siripongs, a 43-year-old Thai national, practicing Buddhist, jailhouse artist and model prisoner, was executed at San Quentin on January 9 for a double murder at an Orange County grocery store in 1981
- JANUARY 9, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 9, Sun Maobeng, former governor of the Ningbo...
On January 9, Sun Maobeng, former governor of the Ningbo city branch of the People's Bank of China, was handed a suspended death sentence for bribery (more than $80,000) by a court in southeastern Zhejiang Province
- JANUARY 8, 1999JapanDEATH PENALTY
On January 8, in Osaka, prosecutors demanded the death...
On January 8, in Osaka, prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Yasutoshi Kamata, 58, for murdering a 9-year-old girl and 4 women and abandoning their bodies in the mountains in Nara and Osaka Prefectures between 1985 and 1994