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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- MARCH 30, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court sentenced Hakimbek Homidov to capital...
The Supreme Court sentenced Hakimbek Homidov to capital punishment
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions court in Pasrur handed out a...
An Additional Sessions court in Pasrur handed out a death sentence to Waheed Murad for murder
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Tariq Iqbal was condemned to death by an Additional...
Tariq Iqbal was condemned to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore
- MARCH 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Session court in Faisalabad, handed out...
An Additional Session court in Faisalabad, handed out the death penalty to Ramazan Khalid of Nishatabad for murder
- MARCH 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ghulam Hussain was condemned to death by a Special...
Ghulam Hussain was condemned to death by a Special Anti Terrorist court in Lahore
- MARCH 22, 2000ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Lusaka sentenced to death a man found...
The High Court in Lusaka sentenced to death a man found guilty of the 1993 murder of Major-General Gerald Nyirenda, former commandant of the Zambia National Service
- MARCH 15, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Fukuoka District Court sentenced Yoshikatsu Oda,...
The Fukuoka District Court sentenced Yoshikatsu Oda, 52, to death for stabbing to death Ikuyo Kagenishi and Tsuyoshi Shiraishi in December 1990 and attempting to make the murders appear to be a double suicide
- MARCH 13, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court condemned Aiyub Ali, 27, to death for strangling...
A court condemned Aiyub Ali, 27, to death for strangling Munirul Islam of Arpara village in Bagha thana on December 16, 1997
- MARCH 9, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman was sentenced to death for murdering her husband
A woman was sentenced to death for murdering her husband
- MARCH 7, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
President Kim Dae-jung said he was highly appreciative...
President Kim Dae-jung said he was highly appreciative of French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin for his role in saving his life when he was sentenced to death by a Korean military tribunal in 1980
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions judge Zawar Ahmed...
Additional District and Sessions judge Zawar Ahmed condemned to death a woman [identified only as] Robina for murder
- MARCH 2, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hossein Arjmandi received two death sentences for murdering...
Hossein Arjmandi received two death sentences for murdering a mother and her son
- MARCH 1, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tsu District Court sentenced 46 year old Nobuyuki...
The Tsu District Court sentenced 46 year old Nobuyuki Sawamoto, 50 year old Sakae Matsuyama, and Yoshiaki Fukumoto, 49, to death for murdering two Filipinos and robbing them of money and jewellery in Mie Prefecture on December 25, 1998
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Four people were sentenced to death in Rwanda for their...
Four people were sentenced to death in Rwanda for their involvement in the murder of 120 Tutsis who had taken refuge in a church during the 1994 massacres
- FEBRUARY 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A District and Sessions Court in Chatta condemned to...
A District and Sessions Court in Chatta condemned to death Mohammad Akram for murder
- FEBRUARY 25, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
District and sessions Judge Muhammad Aslam Khan gave...
District and sessions Judge Muhammad Aslam Khan gave the death sentence to [a person identified only as] Azam involved in a murder case
- FEBRUARY 23, 2000EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt executed two Moslem militants, Ahmed el-Naggar...
Egypt executed two Moslem militants, Ahmed el-Naggar and Ahmed Ismail
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
The Jaffna Magistrate, M
The Jaffna Magistrate, M
- FEBRUARY 17, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Isamu Hirano,53, was sentenced to death by the Utsunomiya...
Isamu Hirano,53, was sentenced to death by the Utsunomiya District Court for killing his former employer and his employer's wife, stealing their money, and setting fire to their house in Ichikai, Tochigi Prefecture in 1994
- FEBRUARY 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Narcotics court handed out four death...
A Special Anti Narcotics court handed out four death sentences in two separate cases
- FEBRUARY 11, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Botswanan High Court sentenced 49-year old Mariette...
The Botswanan High Court sentenced 49-year old Mariette Bosch, a South African woman, to death
- FEBRUARY 10, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Liga Veneta (northern autonomist party) senator Antonio...
Liga Veneta (northern autonomist party) senator Antonio Serena tabled a parliamentary question to the Prime Minister probing the ethics of having photographs of American death row prisoners plastered on billboards all over Italian cities
- FEBRUARY 9, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Hiroaki Hidaka, 37, was given the death sentence for...
Hiroaki Hidaka, 37, was given the death sentence for murdering four women over a five-month period in 1996
- FEBRUARY 9, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Attorney General Jay Nixon filed a lawsuit in Circuit...
Attorney General Jay Nixon filed a lawsuit in Circuit Court, accusing the Italian clothing company Benetton and Gonzaga University law professor Speedy Rice of deceiving the state in their use of inmates at Potosi Correctional Center
- JANUARY 28, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Chan Choon Wai, 20, was sentenced to hang by a court...
Chan Choon Wai, 20, was sentenced to hang by a court in Singapore
- JANUARY 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five militants were sentenced to death for separatism,...
Five militants were sentenced to death for separatism, murder, robbery and illegally dealing in weapons and ammunition in connection with a two-year spate of separatist activities across China's northwestern territory of Xinjiang
- JANUARY 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twelve convicted felons were sentenced and executed...
Twelve convicted felons were sentenced and executed in central Henan province, as courts embarked on the annual pre-Lunar New Year flurry of executions
- JANUARY 18, 2000BrazilDEATH PENALTY
Lebanese and Brazilian negotiators concluded two draft...
Lebanese and Brazilian negotiators concluded two draft agreements aimed to facilitate the extradition of fugitives and improve judicial co-operation between the two countries
- JANUARY 15, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
A tract, signed by the Albanian National Army, was...
A tract, signed by the Albanian National Army, was found in Podujeve [in northeastern Kosovo]
- JANUARY 15, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Ali Khalil, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee...
Ali Khalil, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Lebanese parliament, contacted the Egyptian Ambassador Adel al-Khudari to express his appreciation for Egypt's intervention in the case of two Lebanese nationals sentenced to death in the Cong