Death sentences
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A death sentence is not the same thing as an execution: years can pass between the two, and the sentence may be overturned on appeal, commuted, or never carried out. Counting them separately measures two different things: how far a state resorts to capital punishment, and how far it actually applies it.
This page collects the news on death sentences handed down around the world, on the later stages of appeal, and on the sentences upheld or overturned. Executions have a page of their own.
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- MAY 8, 2003SudanDEATH PENALTY
Ali Ibrahim was sentenced to death for running a lucrative...
Ali Ibrahim was sentenced to death for running a lucrative drug trafficking business under Al-Qaeda
- MAY 6, 2003MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco condemned a man to death for the murder of...
Morocco condemned a man to death for the murder of a policeman during an escape attempt from court
- MAY 3, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
A Jefferson County Jury sentenced Cameron Deck to death
A Jefferson County Jury sentenced Cameron Deck to death
- APRIL 30, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court sentenced a priest, Shushil Murmu, to death...
A court sentenced a priest, Shushil Murmu, to death for sacrificing a nine-year-old child to appease a deity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand
- APRIL 29, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Five people were sentenced to death, including two...
Five people were sentenced to death, including two prison officers and a policeman, for possessing more than 800,000 methamphetamine pills with intent to sell
- APRIL 29, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
A Jordanian military court condemned three men to death,...
A Jordanian military court condemned three men to death, two in absentia, for a bombing that killed two people in 2002
- APRIL 29, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Ruslan Bendadeh, 28, an Indonesian labourer was sentenced...
Ruslan Bendadeh, 28, an Indonesian labourer was sentenced to death by the High Court for drug trafficking
- APRIL 28, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Babul Mia was condemned to death by a court in Bangladesh...
Babul Mia was condemned to death by a court in Bangladesh for killing his younger brother in 2001
- APRIL 27, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Moh Chuan Pin, a 28-year-old blacksmith, was sentenced...
Moh Chuan Pin, a 28-year-old blacksmith, was sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering a telecommunications equipment salesgirl in 2001
- APRIL 27, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Three people were sentenced to death for the murder...
Three people were sentenced to death for the murder of a man named Mozammel Ali on September 6, 1996
- APRIL 19, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
An unnamed 46-year-old man convicted of illegal drug...
An unnamed 46-year-old man convicted of illegal drug production was sentenced to death in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City
- APRIL 17, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row,...
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row, intervened at the UN Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Transational Radical Party
- APRIL 16, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Gansu Province,...
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Gansu Province, China, sentenced to death Li Yuanjie, 21, Peng Gang, 22, Yao Wenkun, 23, Wu Guohua, 21, and sentenced Wang Ming, 20, to death with a reprieve
- APRIL 11, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Clinton Young, 19, was sentenced to death by a jury...
Clinton Young, 19, was sentenced to death by a jury in Midland County for the 2001 murder of Doyle Douglas, 54, and the kidnapping and murder of Samuel Petrey, 54
- APRIL 11, 2003CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
According to a CVVM agency poll almost two-thirds of...
According to a CVVM agency poll almost two-thirds of Czechs believe that the Czech Republic should reinstate the death penalty and one-third believe that all murderers should receive it
- APRIL 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking...
Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking opium and heroin under Vietnam's tough anti-drug laws
- APRIL 9, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Sadek Hossain, 42, was sentenced to death by the Acid...
Sadek Hossain, 42, was sentenced to death by the Acid Crime Prevention Tribunal in Dhaka for throwing acid on on Sudhir Ranjan Ghotok, a senior advocate of Dhaka district court
- APRIL 3, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Algerian newspaper Le Matin reported that Mohamed...
The Algerian newspaper Le Matin reported that Mohamed Ferfar, sentenced to death on charges of terrorism on 25 March, had been sentenced to death once more on separate charges
- APRIL 2, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court sentenced to death a Bangladeshi mother who...
A court sentenced to death a Bangladeshi mother who murdered her two children in an apparent human sacrifice
- MARCH 31, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan Constitutional Court ruled that the UPDF...
The Ugandan Constitutional Court ruled that the UPDF (Uganda's People's Defence Forces) might continue executing convicts sentenced to death by the army's field court martial
- MARCH 30, 2003ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
More than 300 prisoners facing the death penalty in...
More than 300 prisoners facing the death penalty in Zambia are kept in overcrowded cells, where conditions violate basic human rights, Jethro Mumbuwa, the country's commissioner of prisons, said
- MARCH 29, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Gulzar and Ahmad Riaz were sentenced to death...
Ahmad Gulzar and Ahmad Riaz were sentenced to death by the Additional District and Session Court in the murder case of Ali Liaqat, Gulzar's business partner
- MARCH 27, 2003SudanDEATH PENALTY
Mustafa Adam Abdella was sentenced to death before...
Mustafa Adam Abdella was sentenced to death before the Nyala Court, Sudan
- MARCH 26, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Regional Court in Brno, Czech Republic, decided...
The Regional Court in Brno, Czech Republic, decided not extradite Chinese citizen Wen-min Zhang to China on fears he could be executed
- MARCH 26, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Michael Schultz, 34, was sentenced to death for the Aug
Michael Schultz, 34, was sentenced to death for the Aug
- MARCH 25, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Wan Mohd Azman Hassan, 30, and Ibrahim Nawang, 29,...
Wan Mohd Azman Hassan, 30, and Ibrahim Nawang, 29, were sentenced to death by the High Court after they were found guilty of trafficking 1
- MARCH 24, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
The 'Jordan Times' reported that a 22-year-old man...
The 'Jordan Times' reported that a 22-year-old man was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court after being convicted the previous week of raping an eight-year-old child in Irbid in 2002
- MARCH 24, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Five people were sentenced to death in two separate...
Five people were sentenced to death in two separate murder cases in Bangladesh, the Independent reported
- MARCH 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Latif Khokon, 25, was sentenced to death by an...
Abdul Latif Khokon, 25, was sentenced to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Bangladesh following a conviction for rape and murder
- MARCH 23, 2003SudanDEATH PENALTY
Mustafa Adam Abdella was sentenced to death on before...
Mustafa Adam Abdella was sentenced to death on before Nyala Court