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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- OCTOBER 7, 2001BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A young man was convicted and condemned to death for...
A young man was convicted and condemned to death for killing his wife in 1999
- OCTOBER 6, 2001HondurasDEATH PENALTY
Honduran Ambassador to the United States Hugo Noe Pino...
Honduran Ambassador to the United States Hugo Noe Pino is travelling to Tegucigalpa to ask for information regarding the case of a Honduran citizen on death row in Texas
- OCTOBER 5, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
A Paris-based human rights group said that most of...
A Paris-based human rights group said that most of those on death row in the United States had not received a fair trial and called on US Supreme Court judges to declare the death penalty unconstitutional
- OCTOBER 3, 2001MissouriDEATH PENALTY
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- OCTOBER 1, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Almaty sentenced to death by shooting two...
A court in Almaty sentenced to death by shooting two of the three men accused of cannibalism
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2001SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
A man who killed the driver of Colonel Tafase, an Ethiopian...
A man who killed the driver of Colonel Tafase, an Ethiopian official who is based in Baydhabo, was sentenced to death in the town
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The director of operations in the Uganda Prisons Service,...
The director of operations in the Uganda Prisons Service, Moses Kakungulu, proposed that the execution of convicts be privatised if the death penalty cannot be abolished
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A military court in Hebron sentenced a member of the...
A military court in Hebron sentenced a member of the Palestinian National Security Forces to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of murder
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Military Tribunal sentenced three men to death...
The Military Tribunal sentenced three men to death and three others to long jail terms for two separate murders
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man was sentenced to death in Henan province for...
A man was sentenced to death in Henan province for murdering his wife, adopted son and another person with poisoned soft drinks
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two men were sentenced to death for possessing 113...
Two men were sentenced to death for possessing 113 kilograms of heroin with intent to sell
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Two Iranians have been sentenced to death and 23 of...
Two Iranians have been sentenced to death and 23 of their accomplices given jail terms for operating a prostitution ring in the holy city of Qom
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhong Hongzhi was sentenced to death with two years'...
Zhong Hongzhi was sentenced to death with two years' probation, and an accomplice, Yang Meishou, to three years imprisonment with three years' probation, for forging value-added invoices totalling millions of yuan
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A military court in Congo sentenced eight people to...
A military court in Congo sentenced eight people to death for a failed plot to assassinate the central African nation's president, Joseph Kabila
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian, sentenced to death for shooting of a mother...
An Iranian, sentenced to death for shooting of a mother and her son, was hanged in public in northeastern Tehran before the eyes of hundreds of onlookers one week after his brother ended up at the gallows on the same charge
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Sharia Court in Birnin-Kebbi sentenced 35-year-old...
The Sharia Court in Birnin-Kebbi sentenced 35-year-old Attahiru Umaru to death by stoning for forcibly having anal sex with a seven-year-old boy in the Zamfara state capital
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian sentenced to death for collaboration...
A Palestinian sentenced to death for collaboration with Israel was killed during an attempted escape, witnesses said
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The ten men sentenced to death on August 7 for the...
The ten men sentenced to death on August 7 for the murder of Thackoor Boodram form the single largest group sentenced to death for one murder in the history of Trinidad and Tobago
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two Chinese Haw tribesmen, Ar-hong sae Soo, 27, and...
Two Chinese Haw tribesmen, Ar-hong sae Soo, 27, and Ar-sing sae Lee, 28, and a Burmese drug dealer, Ar-liang sae Chern, 28, were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Three dadah traffickers facing the death sentence escaped...
Three dadah traffickers facing the death sentence escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal allowed their appeals
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting...
An Iranian, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of a mother and her son, was hanged in public in northeastern Tehran before the eyes of hundreds of onlookers
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine asked the Council of Europe to do its utmost...
Ukraine asked the Council of Europe to do its utmost and make Thailand's authorities vacate the death sentence to Ukrainian citizen Viktoria Mamontova
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four criminals were separately sentenced to death for...
Four criminals were separately sentenced to death for forcing women to engage in prostitution by a court in Minquan County of Shangqiu City, Henan Province
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Dr. Shaikh Muhammed Younus's last hope of escaping...
Dr. Shaikh Muhammed Younus's last hope of escaping the gallows lies with his petition to a Pakistani high court. The medical professor, 45, was sentenced to death on August 19 on a charge of blasphemy
- AUGUST 31, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court in Thailand condemned Pateutoh,...
The Criminal Court in Thailand condemned Pateutoh, 34, and Shi,18, both from Burma, to death for smuggling 400,000 speed pills from Burma into Tak's Mae Sot district on August 23, 2000
- AUGUST 31, 2001LaosDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court in Thailand sentenced Singkham Suwanrit...
The Criminal Court in Thailand sentenced Singkham Suwanrit and Puangkaew Sirisopa, both from Laos nationals, to death for smuggling 359,840 speed pills from Laos into the Thai Peon Pisai district, Nong Khai, on April 20, 2001
- AUGUST 31, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in the southern province of Hunan sentenced...
A court in the southern province of Hunan sentenced a woman who blew up her husband and two accomplices to death for killing her husband and four other victims with a home-made bomb
- AUGUST 31, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced 12 men and five women...
The Criminal Court sentenced 12 men and five women to death on speed smuggling charges in six separate drug cases
- AUGUST 31, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
In the preceding 18 months , the Tangerang District...
In the preceding 18 months , the Tangerang District Court handed down death sentences to 13 defendants for drug offences
- AUGUST 30, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian sentenced to death for murder was executed...
An Iranian sentenced to death for murder was executed in Tehran's Qasr Prison at dawn