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 3, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A Briton was sentenced to death by the High Court in...
A Briton was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia's northern state of Pulau Pinang for trafficking 189
- JUNE 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced...
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced Zulifqar Ali Bhutto to death, and Nadeem Abbas to life imprisonment, for shooting dead Tariq Mehmood, the manager of a utility store who had intervened in their dispute with the store's security g
- JUNE 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A railway court in Shanghai sentenced Zhao Xianhui,...
A railway court in Shanghai sentenced Zhao Xianhui, a farmer from southwest China's Yunnan Province, to death with two years' probation
- JUNE 29, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Jamal Deeb Amin, 40, received the death penalty for...
Jamal Deeb Amin, 40, received the death penalty for killing his daughter near Nabatieh in 1999 because he suspected she wanted to marry against his will
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to...
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to death by the Haikou Municipal People's Intermediate Court
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court decreed the death penalty on Liu Futian who sold 810 grams of heroin and made an illegal gain of 105,600 yuan
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court handed...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court handed down death sentences to Ma Xueyun, a drug trafficker, drug smugglers Yan Zai, Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan, the latter two of Burmese nationality, and drug transporters Li Jie and Gong Xiaoying
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed tens of drug traffickers in a synchronised...
China executed tens of drug traffickers in a synchronised operation to dramatise its seriousness about fighting drug-related crime and to mark the International Anti-Drug Day
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province,...
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province, were executed in Dongguan City in south China's Guangdong province
- JUNE 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shahid Saeed was condemned to death for murder
Shahid Saeed was condemned to death for murder
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced...
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced to death in Hangzhou for embezzling over 1m yuan of public money from a bank account
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yibin Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Yibin Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Ma Haijian, Zhu Qinglin, Zhu Qingmin, Qu Zhi'an and Tang Yongcai to death while Wang Shiyun and Xu Yanpu were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 21, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A teacher in Lahore was given the death sentence for...
A teacher in Lahore was given the death sentence for hacking to death a ten-year-old pupil
- JUNE 19, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abdollah Rasouli, 31, convicted of killing his pregnant...
Abdollah Rasouli, 31, convicted of killing his pregnant wife on January 23, 2000 was sentenced to death
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced...
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced its judgment on the extraordinary case of mass murder in the coal pits in Yi County, Liaoning
- JUNE 16, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
A Turkish court sentenced 33 Moslem activists to death...
A Turkish court sentenced 33 Moslem activists to death for their role in an Islamist riot in 1993 in which 37 people were killed
- JUNE 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Zhanjiang court sentenced to death Zhang Zhenlian,...
A Zhanjiang court sentenced to death Zhang Zhenlian, 40, for issuing 72 copies of false value added specialized tax invoices with a total value of 175m yuan involving taxes of 29
- JUNE 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fang Yong, 35, who hid in Canada for nine years, was...
Fang Yong, 35, who hid in Canada for nine years, was given the death penalty by the Ningbo People's Intermediate Court for embezzling about 1
- JUNE 13, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Five suspects were sentenced to death in the case on...
Five suspects were sentenced to death in the case on the terrorist organization TKP/ML [Turkish Communist Party/Marxist Leninist-Turkish Workers and Peasants]
- JUNE 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for shooting dead...
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for shooting dead Abdul Hamid of Chak in a dispute over water in March 1997
- JUNE 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Keyvan Najafi, convicted of murdering Hossein Soleimani,...
Keyvan Najafi, convicted of murdering Hossein Soleimani, was sentenced to death in Tehran
- JUNE 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Anoushirvan Rezaiee, convicted of murdering Amir Zarei...
Anoushirvan Rezaiee, convicted of murdering Amir Zarei in Autumn 1999, was sentenced to death in Tehran
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Dandong Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Dandong Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Liaoning sentenced Song Jie and Huang He to death for armed murder in Dandong on December12, 1999
- JUNE 7, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
Bennie Demps, a condemned man who spent more than half...
Bennie Demps, a condemned man who spent more than half his 49 years on Death Row, was executed in Florida
- JUNE 7, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The Fujairah Sharia Court sentenced to death Ali Rashid...
The Fujairah Sharia Court sentenced to death Ali Rashid Sagheer, 40, for shooting a neighbour dead in Masafi in 1999
- JUNE 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaowu City sentenced to death Liu Daming for obtaining...
Shaowu City sentenced to death Liu Daming for obtaining public funds through corruption
- JUNE 1, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Shamsul...
The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Shamsul Arefin condemned to death Ershad Ali Sikder, a notorious terrorist, for the killing of a murder witness
- JUNE 1, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
The courts sentenced eight people to death for taking...
The courts sentenced eight people to death for taking part in the country's 1994 genocide
- MAY 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara has imposed death sentence on one and gave life imprisonment to two others
- MAY 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat...
A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat Jail, while the hanging of his accomplicewas deferred for a month