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- JANUARY 8, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE RULE FACES EXTRA SCRUTINY
China's Supreme People's Court will directly overturn death sentences in cases where evidence was collected by illegal means, in a move to further limit the application of capital punishment and pressure local courts to check evidence more thoroughly, SPC
- JANUARY 8, 2011United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Police officials argue death penalty doesn't make us safer
USA - Police officials argue death penalty doesn't make us safer
- JANUARY 8, 2011YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN: MAN ON DEATH ROW MAKES CLEMENCY APPEAL TO SALEH
a Yemeni man facing execution next week for a murder committed in 1999 while he was 13 years old urged President Ali Abdullah Saleh to commute his death sentence.
- JANUARY 8, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: MINER GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING CHINESE BOSS
Supreme Court judge Munyinda Wanki, sitting at the Lusaka High Court in Zambia, sentenced Pythias Chinene of Lusaka to death for murdering his Chinese boss Zong Tangku at Collum Coal Mine in Chongwe district on February 2, 2010.
JANUARY 8, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FOUR HANGED IN ISFAHAN FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Four men were hanged in the prison of central Iranian city of Isfahan, early today
JANUARY 8, 2011ItalyDEATH PENALTYILLINOIS: HANDS OFF CAIN APPEAL FOR THE SUSPENSION OF GEORGE RYAN'S SENTENCE
“We appeal to your sense of humanity and ask for a moratorium on the six and a half year sentence of ex Illinois Governor George Ryan, half of which he has already served, so that he can be at the bedside of his dying wife Lura,” the Hands Off Cain direct
- JANUARY 7, 2011New HampshireDEATH PENALTY
USA - New Hampshire. Home invasion bill expands death penalty
USA - New Hampshire. Home invasion bill expands death penalty
- JANUARY 7, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO MEN HANGED IN BOROUJERD
Two men were hanged in Boroujerd, west of Iran, early this morning.
- JANUARY 7, 2011ColoradoDEATH PENALTY
USA - Colorado. Outgoing Gov. Bill Ritter today awarded a posthumous pardon to Joe Arridy, who was executed in 1939
USA - Colorado. Outgoing Gov. Bill Ritter today awarded a posthumous pardon to Joe Arridy, who was executed in 1939
- JANUARY 6, 2011AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIAN ESCAPES EXECUTION IN AFGHANISTAN
a former Australian soldier convicted of murder in Afghanistan had his January 2009 death sentence commuted to a 20-year jail term.
- JANUARY 6, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MEERUT FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING DAUGHTER
in Meerut, India, Additional district and sessions judge Shyam Vinod sentenced Ajay Kumar, a labourer from Bihar, to death for raping and killing his daughter Renu, 7, on May 16, 2008.
- JANUARY 6, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabian national Naji bin Arif bin Sa'b al-Shamari, sentenced to death for killing fellow citizen Khalid bin Matrid bin Khalaf Al-Shamari over a family fued, was beheaded in A'rar in the country's north, the interior ministry said in a statement.
- JANUARY 6, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
AL SHABAAB EXECUTES ENGLISH-SPEAKING MAN IN SOUTHERN SOMALIA FOR SPYING
in Goobweyne village in Somalia's Lower Jubba region...
- JANUARY 6, 2011IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Billy Don Alverson, 39, black, was executed
USA - Oklahoma. Billy Don Alverson, 39, black, was executed
- JANUARY 6, 2011OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Illinois. Illinois House voted to abolish the death penalty
USA - Illinois. Illinois House voted to abolish the death penalty
JANUARY 6, 2011DEATH PENALTYILLINOIS (USA): HOUSE VOTED TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
Illinois House voted to abolish the death penalty. Late Thursday afternoon, the House
- JANUARY 5, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
PROSTITUTION-RING LEADER'S DEATH PENALTY UPHELD IN SW CHINA
the death penalty given to female gang boss Wang Ziqi in August 2010 by China's Chongqing No. 5 Intermediate People's Court was upheld by the Chongqing Municipal Higher People's Court.
- JANUARY 5, 2011GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING FATHER
in Guyana, Justice Dawn Gregory-Barnes sentenced Gowkarran ‘Silence’ Ramdayal, 25, to death for bludgeoning his father Bhowan Ramdayal on October 10, 2007, with a piece of iron in an argument money. The father died on January 16, 2008.
- JANUARY 5, 2011GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
the High Court in Janjangbureh, Gambia...
- JANUARY 5, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 104 GET DEATH IN 2010
trial courts in Pakistan's Rawalpindi district handed down death sentence to 104 people in 2010, compared to 53 in 2009, data obtained from the district courts revealed.
JANUARY 5, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: CONVICTED MURDERER HANGED IN PUBLIC
Iran hanged in public a man convicted of committing a sensational daylight murder in a Tehran neighbourhood in October, state news agency IRNA reported.
- JANUARY 5, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A convicted drug trafficker, identified only by his initials A.A., was executed
JANUARY 5, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: INDIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING DRUGS
A 27-year-old Indian was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court on charges
- JANUARY 4, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE ON RESTAURANT OPERATOR
Chief Judge of Malasya Tan Sri Arifin Zakaria and judges Tan Sri Mohd Ghazali Mohd Yusoff and Datuk Heliliah Mohd Yusof of the Malaysian Federal Court upheld the conviction and death sentence of restaurant operator Mohd Farid Sukis, 35, for trafficking 1,
- JANUARY 4, 2011United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Murder Victims’ Families Need Services More Than the Death Penalty.
USA - Murder Victims’ Families Need Services More Than the Death Penalty.
- JANUARY 3, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
one man was hanged in the prison of Zahedan, Iran, early in the morning
one man was hanged in the prison of Zahedan, Iran, early in the morning
- JANUARY 3, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
According to several Iranian news agencies seven people were hanged in the prison
According to several Iranian news agencies seven people were hanged in the prison
- JANUARY 3, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN BEHEAD MILITANT FOR ‘SPYING’ FOR GOVERNMENT IN PAKISTAN
Taliban fighters beheaded fellow militant Gulbat Khan for spying for the government in the Ismail Zai area in the lawless Orakzai tribal region in northest Pakistan.
- JANUARY 3, 2011UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: 12 CHILDREN ON DEATH ROW RELEASED
Ugandan High court judge Eldad Mwangusya ordered the release of 12 people who were arrested as juveniles and detained for 20 years following the failure of the justice minister to sentence them.
JANUARY 3, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: EIGHT PEOPLE HANGED
eight people were hanged in two different towns in Iran.