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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- JULY 24, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yang Xiaojian was sentenced to death for raping nine...
Yang Xiaojian was sentenced to death for raping nine women taxi drivers in 40 days
- JULY 23, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced to death two foreigners...
The Criminal Court sentenced to death two foreigners and a Thai for trafficking heroin
- JULY 23, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death a Singaporean,...
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death a Singaporean, Tan Wan Kiang, 40, together with a Hong Kong citizen and another from Thailand
- JULY 23, 2001Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Hong Kong woman was sentenced to death by Thailand's...
A Hong Kong woman was sentenced to death by Thailand's main criminal court for trafficking in 6
- JULY 20, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Oman sentenced two Pakistanis to death for drug dealing...
Oman sentenced two Pakistanis to death for drug dealing and machineguns possession
- JULY 20, 2001OmanDEATH PENALTY
Oman sentenced two Pakistanis to death for drug dealing...
Oman sentenced two Pakistanis to death for drug dealing and machineguns possession
- JULY 18, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Eight Iranians sentenced to death for murder were hanged...
Eight Iranians sentenced to death for murder were hanged at dawn in Tehran's Ghasr prison, jail authorities said
- JULY 13, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced Mustafakul Boimurodov...
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced Mustafakul Boimurodov and Sadritdin Fatkhutdinov, the organizers and perpetrators of a terrorist attack on a Korean religious mission to Dushanbe, to death
- JULY 11, 2001MissouriDEATH PENALTY
Jerome Mallett, 42, was put to death at 12:06 a
Jerome Mallett, 42, was put to death at 12:06 a
- JULY 11, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman, sentenced to death for murder and adultery,...
A woman, sentenced to death for murder and adultery, was stoned to death in Tehran's Evin prison, a judiciary source said
- JULY 10, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
The state Supreme Court issued new rules designed to...
The state Supreme Court issued new rules designed to streamline and speed up the appeals process for death row inmates
- JULY 9, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Nagoya District Court sentenced one of three defendants...
The Nagoya District Court sentenced one of three defendants to death for killing four men over a period of eleven days in 1994 in the Gifu, Aichi and Osaka prefectures
- JULY 6, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
President Abdurrahman Wahid disclosed his plan to deport...
President Abdurrahman Wahid disclosed his plan to deport nine foreigners who had been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia as a part of the country's international role in combating the drugs
- JULY 3, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Three armed drug-traffickers, sentenced to death by...
Three armed drug-traffickers, sentenced to death by a revolutionary court, were hanged at dawn in public in the southeastern city of Zahedan, that borders neighbouring leading drug-producer Afghanistan
- JULY 3, 2001ChadDEATH PENALTY
N'Djamena's criminal court sentenced five people to...
N'Djamena's criminal court sentenced five people to death, including one in absentia after convicting them for armed robbery
- JULY 3, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The punishment imposed on heroin traffickers is to...
The punishment imposed on heroin traffickers is to be reduced, the vice chief justice of the Criminal Court Dinh Van Que said
- JULY 2, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the Nigerian...
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the Nigerian government was using all diplomatic channels to plead for clemency for four Nigerians sentenced to death in Libya
- JULY 2, 2001LibyaDEATH PENALTY
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the Nigerian...
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the Nigerian government was using all diplomatic channels to plead for clemency for four Nigerians sentenced to death in Libya
- JUNE 29, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight people, who were found guilty of the crimes for...
Eight people, who were found guilty of the crimes for murder, manslaughter, robbery, blackmail, kidnapping and illegally possessing weapons, were sentenced to death and executed in Chaozhou, a city in south China's Guangdong Province
- JUNE 29, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Zhambyl Regional court sentenced to death Mikhail...
The Zhambyl Regional court sentenced to death Mikhail Vagner, 30, accused of being a rapist and serial killer
- JUNE 28, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A sessions court sentenced to death two sisters who...
A sessions court sentenced to death two sisters who abducted infants from various places in Maharashtra in the 1990s, forced them to commit thefts and subsequently killed them mercilessly
- JUNE 28, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Foreign prisoners' chances of clemency under a Royal...
Foreign prisoners' chances of clemency under a Royal Pardon from Thailand's King may have ended under a tougher government stance against drug traffickers
- JUNE 27, 2001JordanDEATH PENALTY
An alleged Bin-Laden group militant appeared before...
An alleged Bin-Laden group militant appeared before the State Security Court on charges of belonging to an extremist ring, months after he was sentenced to death in absentia in a high profile case
- JUNE 27, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A Tehran court sentenced six members of a notorious...
A Tehran court sentenced six members of a notorious gang of robbers to death, the Persian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami reported
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong residents Tan Hung-chien and Tan Hao-hui...
Hong Kong residents Tan Hung-chien and Tan Hao-hui were condemned to death by the Guangdong Supreme People's Court
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Haikou Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province...
The Haikou Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province held a judgment pronouncement rally at the Haikou gymnasium
- JUNE 26, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A court in northern Kazakhstan has sentenced a 29-year-old...
A court in northern Kazakhstan has sentenced a 29-year-old man, Oleg Murayenko, to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of murdering six young women in Petropavlovsk between March and November 2000
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Urumqi court condemned to death Gan Zexue and Xu...
The Urumqi court condemned to death Gan Zexue and Xu Shuangquan, together with their accomplices for carrying out a violent robbery armed with knives with the intention of taking other people's property illegally
- JUNE 24, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a "religious fundamentalist network"...
Two members of a "religious fundamentalist network" accused of "armed actions" in Iran including an attack on a senior court official were sentenced to death, the head of Tehran's revolutionary court said
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a...
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a robbery case of an "exceptionally large" criminal gang of 21 members and passed death sentences on 11 suspects, including Min Yongjun and Zeng Wenqing