Chronological archive
March 2000
The 184 news items published by Hands Off Cain in March 2000, in chronological order.
The death penalty is provided for in the Penal Code...
The death penalty is provided for in the Penal Code (1953) for political and ordinary crimes
- MARCH 31, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe...
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) urged Russia to prosecute soldiers responsible for human rights violations in Chechnya
- MARCH 31, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Deputy Secretary General of the CE Hans Christian...
The Deputy Secretary General of the CE Hans Christian Kruger, during a visit to Albania, said that the implementation of the death sentence has no effect on criminals, and it is erroneous to believe that it does
- MARCH 31, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Albanian President Rexhep Meidani said that with the...
Albanian President Rexhep Meidani said that with the new constitution the chapter on capital punishment in Albania was closed
- MARCH 31, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
A court sentenced eight people to death and 14 to prison...
A court sentenced eight people to death and 14 to prison terms for their role in the 1994 genocide
- MARCH 31, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Khalaf bin Saleh al-Jawfi, who was convicted of murdering...
Khalaf bin Saleh al-Jawfi, who was convicted of murdering his father, was executed in the northern city of Arar
- MARCH 31, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
Marwick Khumalo, a Swazi MP for Lobamba demanded to...
Marwick Khumalo, a Swazi MP for Lobamba demanded to know whether the dozen people on death row were ever going to face the hangman
- MARCH 31, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
An angry crowd tried to storm a court where three men...
An angry crowd tried to storm a court where three men faced charges over a night-club teargas attack that led to the death of 13 school children
- MARCH 30, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
During his hearing at the Tokyo District Court, Tomomasa...
During his hearing at the Tokyo District Court, Tomomasa Nakagawa, 37, said, "I will be sentenced to death
- MARCH 30, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court sentenced Hakimbek Homidov to capital...
The Supreme Court sentenced Hakimbek Homidov to capital punishment
- MARCH 30, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights...
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Perez Roque said it remained to be seen whether the Commission would ever muster the courage to condemn the United States for its unfair and arbitrary application of the d
- MARCH 30, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeals upheld the mandatory death sentence...
The Court of Appeals upheld the mandatory death sentence imposed on Andy Baginda, a Filipino drug trafficker
- MARCH 30, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Chief...
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Chief Maweni Simelane, said the government had given up its search for a permanent hangman because there were many people on death row
- MARCH 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeal upheld the mandatory death sentence...
The Court of Appeal upheld the mandatory death sentence imposed on a Filipino drug trafficker by the High Court in 1998
- 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 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Sarwar was hung in the Sahiwal Central Jail
Mohammad Sarwar was hung in the Sahiwal Central Jail
- MARCH 30, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Islamists in Jordan were outraged by the publication...
Islamists in Jordan were outraged by the publication of a poem titled "Joseph," written by poet Musa Hawamdeh
- MARCH 30, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court upheld the lower court's...
The Supreme People's Court upheld the lower court's decision to impose the death sentence on Tang Binh, former director of Kien Giang Import-Export Co
- MARCH 30, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Vice-President of the Italian Senate, Ersilia Salvato,...
The Vice-President of the Italian Senate, Ersilia Salvato, discussed the abolition of the death penalty with the newly-elected president of the French National Assembly Raymond Forni
- MARCH 30, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Chamber of Deputies approved unanimously a motion...
The Chamber of Deputies approved unanimously a motion that bound the government to steer the EU to present a new resolution for the abolition of the death penalty at the Commission for Human Rights
- MARCH 29, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
One more mass killing of local inhabitants was carried...
One more mass killing of local inhabitants was carried out in Staropromyslovskiy district of the town
- MARCH 29, 2000NamibiaDEATH PENALTY
The Namibian army and Police were accused by the United...
The Namibian army and Police were accused by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after it submitted the names of 50 Angolan refugees who went missing after they arrived in Namibia and accused Namibian authorities of complicity in the
- MARCH 29, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice officials intervened and saved a convicted...
Justice officials intervened and saved a convicted rapist whom officials were set to execute despite a reprieve granted him two days earlier
- 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 29, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's Military Attorney General, Mamoun Khassawneh,...
Jordan's Military Attorney General, Mamoun Khassawneh, indicted 28 Arab nationals charged with planning bombing attacks on United States and Israeli tourists celebrating the New Year in Jordan
- MARCH 29, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Six eminent Tamil writers appealed to the President...
Six eminent Tamil writers appealed to the President and Tamil Nadu Governor to grant clemency to death row convict [identified only as] Govindasamy who was still awaiting execution in a Coimbatore jail sixteen years after having committed a crime
- MARCH 28, 2000MonacoDEATH PENALTY
Monaco ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the...
Monaco ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- MARCH 28, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Angola's Assistant Attorney-General Cunha Caetano,...
Angola's Assistant Attorney-General Cunha Caetano, speaking in Geneva at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Commission, denied reports by Amnesty International that his country's armed forces have been involved in human rights violations
- MARCH 28, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The Federal Court dismissed an appeal by construction...
The Federal Court dismissed an appeal by construction worker Sam Hong Choy
- MARCH 28, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Mamuka Antia, 31, an ethnic Georgian guerrilla imprisoned...
Mamuka Antia, 31, an ethnic Georgian guerrilla imprisoned in the self-declared republic of Abkhazia committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in Dranda, the minister of internal affairs of Abkhazia, Almazbei Kchach, said on April 3
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- MARCH 28, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Executive Secretary Ronaldo B
Executive Secretary Ronaldo B
- 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 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Kerala High court meted out...
A division bench of the Kerala High court meted out the death sentence to "Ripper Chacko", 54, for the gruesome murder of a five-member family, including three children, in the Idukki district in August 1988
- MARCH 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Subash Singh Thakur, kingpin of a breakaway faction...
Subash Singh Thakur, kingpin of a breakaway faction of the Dawood Ibrahim gang, was given the death sentence for organising a deadly shoot-out in the JJ hospital seven years previously
- MARCH 27, 2000FinlandDEATH PENALTY
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja said that the use of the death penalty was a serious human rights problem, which jeopardized, interalia, the right to life and the right to freedom from
- MARCH 27, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
At the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for...
At the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign affairs Milo, said that, in passing from the phase of emergency to that of longterm development, Albania had been making perceptible progress in implementing human rights by establishing the rul
- MARCH 27, 2000SpainDEATH PENALTY
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Juan Matutes, stated that the right to life was something which could not be renounced
- MARCH 27, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Pretoria High Court sentenced Farao Ramaposha,...
The Pretoria High Court sentenced Farao Ramaposha, a 20-year-old gardener from Zimbabwe, to 25 years in prison for stabbing a Laudium mother of three to death in August 1998
- MARCH 27, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal...
The government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal from the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- MARCH 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology declared as...
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology declared as detrimental to 'Shariat' a Lahore court verdict convicting serial child killer Javed Iqbal to death by strangulation, suffering the same fate as his victims
- MARCH 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned Riaz Akhtar...
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned Riaz Akhtar and Nawaz to death for an abduction cum rape case
- MARCH 27, 2000DenmarkDEATH PENALTY
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights, Foreign Affairs Minister Helveg Petersen said that the Commission on Human Rights should take a firm stand on the abolition of the death penalty
- MARCH 26, 2000MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Speaker Manuel B
Speaker Manuel B
- MARCH 25, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
The Texas Criminal Defence Lawyers Association called...
The Texas Criminal Defence Lawyers Association called on Governor Bush to impose a moratorium on executions in Texas
- MARCH 24, 2000VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
President Hugo Chavez ruled out that the government...
President Hugo Chavez ruled out that the government planned to institute the death penalty or life sentence as a means of coping with this problem of spiralling crime
- MARCH 24, 2000MongoliaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Committee met to consider Mongolia`s...
The UN Human Rights Committee met to consider Mongolia`s fourth periodic report on compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- MARCH 24, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
At its annual congress in Centurion, the right-wing...
At its annual congress in Centurion, the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party said that the death penalty would be reinstated and carried out in public under an Afrikaner government
- MARCH 24, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Appeals Chamber increased the final sentence for...
The Appeals Chamber increased the final sentence for Zlatko Aleksovski to seven years' imprisonment
- MARCH 24, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Khaled Fadghoush and Mansour Ali Ahmad were beheaded...
Khaled Fadghoush and Mansour Ali Ahmad were beheaded for kidnapping a seven-year-old girl
- MARCH 24, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Estrada declared an 11 month moratorium on...
President Estrada declared an 11 month moratorium on 18 out of 959 death convicts awaiting execution by lethal injection out of respect for the world-wide celebration of the Jubilee Year
- MARCH 24, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore headed by...
A Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore headed by judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri condemned two men [identified only as] Zulifqar and Nasir to death in a rape cum murder case
- MARCH 23, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Judge Ahmad Moualem rejected a death sentence appeal...
Judge Ahmad Moualem rejected a death sentence appeal from 25-year-old Mohammed Abdul Halim Abbarah, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Walid Jbaili in the Chouf
- MARCH 23, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Kahi and Mohammad Noushin were sentenced to...
Hassan Kahi and Mohammad Noushin were sentenced to death for murdering Dr
- MARCH 23, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Kelly Lamont Rogers 31, black, was executed by lethal...
Kelly Lamont Rogers 31, black, was executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma State Penitentiary
- MARCH 22, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Clashes between tribal gunmen and the emergency forces...
Clashes between tribal gunmen and the emergency forces and detachments of Fida'iyin ended in the city of Rumaythah in southwestern Iraq with the execution of 14 gunmen corned by Saddam's forces
- MARCH 22, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Governor of Kemerovo region and presidential candidate...
Governor of Kemerovo region and presidential candidate Aman Tuleyev said that the moratorium on capital punishment must be annulled in Russia considering that Russia should not keep Chechen bandits like Salman Raduyev in prisons
- MARCH 22, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Buba Bello Kare Garke Jangebe, a Moslem man described...
Buba Bello Kare Garke Jangebe, a Moslem man described as a notorious cow thief, had his right hand chopped off from the wrist
- 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 22, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
A senior minister said that Sri Lanka was drafting...
A senior minister said that Sri Lanka was drafting tough new laws to combat the growing wave of violent organised crime
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- MARCH 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
President of the Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed the law...
President of the Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed the law abolishing the death penalty with immediate effect
- MARCH 22, 2000MissouriDEATH PENALTY
James Henry Hampton, 62, white, was put to death by...
James Henry Hampton, 62, white, was put to death by lethal injection in State Prison of Potosi
- MARCH 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At the UN Commission on Human Rights Jaime Gama, Foreign...
At the UN Commission on Human Rights Jaime Gama, Foreign Minister of the EU term president Portugal, said the EU is committed to the dialogue with China on human rights
- MARCH 21, 2000VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Affairs minister Vale Rangel said the new Constitution,...
Foreign Affairs minister Vale Rangel said the new Constitution, which reflected the most recent developments in international human rights law, gave full effect to all the human rights instruments to which Venezuela was a party
- MARCH 21, 2000SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights, Minister for Foreign Affairs Joseph Deiss stated that his government was concerned about the way in which the death penalty continued to be applied in certain countries, including the United States, be
- MARCH 21, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
First Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said he doubted...
First Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said he doubted if capital punishment was applicable on Chechen rebel leaders Salman Raduyev and Salaudin Timirbulatov as Russia, being a member of the Council of Europe, had imposed a moratorium on death penaltie
- MARCH 21, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
During a presidential election debate broadcast by...
During a presidential election debate broadcast by Russia TV featuring suspended Prosecutor-General Yuriy Skuratov and Communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov said he was in favour or retaining capital punishment
- MARCH 21, 2000TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
The government of Tanzania deported an Egyptian, Mustafa...
The government of Tanzania deported an Egyptian, Mustafa Mohamoud Ahmed, one of the suspects of the US Embassy bombing in Dar Es Salaam in 1998 where 11 people were killed and more than 70 injured
- MARCH 21, 2000MaltaDEATH PENALTY
The Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 2000 was promulgated...
The Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 2000 was promulgated following approval of the Act by the House of Representatives and President Guido de Marco, allowing Malta to abolish the death penalty for all crimes
- MARCH 21, 2000PortugalDEATH PENALTY
At the UN Commission on Human Rights Jaime Gama, foreign...
At the UN Commission on Human Rights Jaime Gama, foreign minister of EU president Portugal, has said the EU is committed to dialogue with China on human rights
- MARCH 21, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Condemned serial killer Javed Iqbal, 38, appealed his...
Condemned serial killer Javed Iqbal, 38, appealed his March 16 death sentence for the murders of 100 runaway children
- MARCH 21, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Beirut MP Hussein Yatim, accused Hoss of "violating...
Beirut MP Hussein Yatim, accused Hoss of "violating the Constitution by conceding one of his prerogatives to his deputy" and urged Hoss to "prepare a bill that annuls capital punishment if he wants to be in harmony with his beliefs
- MARCH 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The EU General Affairs Council condemned China for...
The EU General Affairs Council condemned China for "marking time" by signing international pacts
- MARCH 20, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
EU foreign ministers issued a statement deploring Russia's...
EU foreign ministers issued a statement deploring Russia's failure to improve international relief efforts in Chechnya or permit the European Humanitarian Office to visit Chechnya
- MARCH 20, 2000PortugalDEATH PENALTY
The EU General Affairs Council in Brussels included...
The EU General Affairs Council in Brussels included a two-page statement condemning China for "marking time" by signing international pacts
- MARCH 20, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The head of Parliament's Finance and Budget Committee,...
The head of Parliament's Finance and Budget Committee, Zahle MP Khalil Hrawi, said that "There is no constitutional violation in this case
- MARCH 20, 2000MinnesotaDEATH PENALTY
A state-wide poll by the Star Tribune Minnesota found...
A state-wide poll by the Star Tribune Minnesota found that support for the death penalty in Minnesota has fallen to 57%, down from 73% in 1996
- MARCH 19, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady...
President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Osipov declared that Russia had the right to suspend its moratorium on capital punishment if the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe spoke out against Russia's membership of that internation
- MARCH 19, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
An opinion poll by "The Sunday Times" has found a majority...
An opinion poll by "The Sunday Times" has found a majority of Western Australians support the death penalty
- MARCH 19, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Salim Hoss refused to sign a judiciary...
Prime Minister Salim Hoss refused to sign a judiciary decree ordering the death sentence for two convicted criminals, Fadi Ahmad Mur`ish and Mahmud Ahmad Husayn, because of his strong opposition to the death penalty
- MARCH 19, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Legal experts expressed different points of view over...
Legal experts expressed different points of view over whether Salim Hoss could be impeached for letting Michel Murr sign authorizations for death sentences
- MARCH 18, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
WA Chief Justice David Malcolm said incarceration was...
WA Chief Justice David Malcolm said incarceration was a serious enough punishment for heinous crimes and he was yet to be convinced of the effectiveness of the death penalty
- MARCH 18, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Security Ministry employees destroyed some 444 kg of...
Security Ministry employees destroyed some 444 kg of drugs confiscated in the course of special operations in the furnaces of one of Dushanbe's industrial plants
- MARCH 18, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovskiy said that...
Presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovskiy said that Chechen rebel leaders should be publicly executed
- MARCH 18, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
The High Court Judge Stanley Maphalala handed down...
The High Court Judge Stanley Maphalala handed down the death sentence against five men and one woman, who killed a priest and his wife in cold blood after suspecting the couple bewitched them
- MARCH 18, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
After the decision of the High Court to hang 12 people...
After the decision of the High Court to hang 12 people on death row, John Gama, the High Court Registrar, said that the threats of bringing the noose back into Swaziland were nothing more than a form of shock treatment for criminals
- MARCH 17, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Police Director Rosso Jose Serrano said that kidnappings...
Police Director Rosso Jose Serrano said that kidnappings have displaced drug trafficking [as the main crime in Colombia] and he proposed the reconsideration of the adoption of life imprisonment and even the death penalty to punish this crime
- MARCH 17, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
WA Premier Richard Court backed away from calling a...
WA Premier Richard Court backed away from calling a referendum on the death penalty before the next State election and said it would not be an election issue
- MARCH 17, 2000MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
King Mohammed VI of Morocco pardoned 864 prisoners,...
King Mohammed VI of Morocco pardoned 864 prisoners, including three sentenced to death, during the Muslim festival of Aid El Kebir celebrations
- MARCH 17, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Senate approved a motion by its Vice-President...
The Senate approved a motion by its Vice-President Ersilia Salvato urging the government to steer the EU towards proposing a new resolution on the death penalty at the UN Commission for Human Rights
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- MARCH 16, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Sendai High Court rejected a former death-row inmate's...
The Sendai High Court rejected a former death-row inmate's demand that the state and Miyagi Prefecture pay a total of 143 million yen in compensation for falsely charging him of murdering a family of four in 1955
- MARCH 16, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
The Italian Charge d'Affaires, Renato Cianfarani said...
The Italian Charge d'Affaires, Renato Cianfarani said Italy was offering sanctuary to three former Derg officials at the Italian Embassy "solely on humanitarian grounds," and that Italy would hand them over if Ethiopia pledged the ex-officials would not f
- MARCH 16, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Lahore courtordered a serial killer who had confessed...
A Lahore courtordered a serial killer who had confessed to killing more than 100 children to 100 death sentences in which he was to die in the same manner he killed his victims
- MARCH 16, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The Islamic penal code envisages stiff sentences for...
The Islamic penal code envisages stiff sentences for a range of social, sexual and political offences, including frequent lashing and even executions
- MARCH 16, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Joseph Nahume Green was acquitted of the murder of...
Joseph Nahume Green was acquitted of the murder of Judith Miscally
- MARCH 16, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Lonnie Weeks Jr
Lonnie Weeks Jr
- MARCH 16, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
CCD chairman Pier Ferdinando Casini met a delegation...
CCD chairman Pier Ferdinando Casini met a delegation of Cuban anti-Castro exiles
- MARCH 15, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Greenough representative Kevin Minson tabled a petition...
Greenough representative Kevin Minson tabled a petition in the Legislative Assembly calling for a referendum on the death penalty
- MARCH 15, 2000Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Ma Lik said it would not be easy for China and...
Deputy Ma Lik said it would not be easy for China and Hong Kong to sign a mutual assistance agreement on criminal cases because of their differences on the issue of the death penalty
- MARCH 15, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Ma Lik said it would not be easy for China and...
Deputy Ma Lik said it would not be easy for China and Hong Kong to sign a mutual assistance agreement on criminal cases because of their differences on the issue of the death penalty
- MARCH 15, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Akesu in the northwestern region of Xinjiang...
A court in Akesu in the northwestern region of Xinjiang gave capital punishment to 11 people, who were shot immediately afterwards
- 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 15, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Internal Affairs minister, Yuriy Kravchenko, addressing...
The Internal Affairs minister, Yuriy Kravchenko, addressing parliament, said that 419 people who had been sentenced to capital punishment will most probably receive long prison terms
- MARCH 15, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Cedric Maake, a serial killer convicted of 27 murders,...
Cedric Maake, a serial killer convicted of 27 murders, 14 rapes and robbery was sentenced to 1,340 years in prison by the Johannesburg High Court
- MARCH 15, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Ha Tinh Province Court Order Execution Council...
The Ha Tinh Province Court Order Execution Council carried out the death penalty for Tran Van Truong, 38
- MARCH 15, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Georgia Senate approved replacing electrocution...
The Georgia Senate approved replacing electrocution with lethal injection as the state's execution method
- MARCH 15, 2000CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Darel Keith Rich, a 45 year old of native American...
Darel Keith Rich, a 45 year old of native American origin, who was known by the name of Young Elk in prison, was executed by lethal injection in San Quentin State Prison
- MARCH 15, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Timothy Gribble, 36, white, was executed by lethal injection
Timothy Gribble, 36, white, was executed by lethal injection
- MARCH 14, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was...
Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was charged with the July 1995 slaughter of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a UN-declared demilitarised zone
- MARCH 14, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Indonesian military and police shot dead seven...
The Indonesian military and police shot dead seven people they claimed were separatist rebels in the restive province of Aceh
- MARCH 14, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Yuri Chaika asked whether a death...
Justice Minister Yuri Chaika asked whether a death sentenced might be handed down to notorious Chechen guerrilla commander Salman Raduyev replied that it was up to the court
- MARCH 14, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prosecutor-General Vasiliy Kolmogorov said on...
Deputy Prosecutor-General Vasiliy Kolmogorov said on the case of Chechen terrorist Salman Raduyev that the charge of premeditated murder may incur capital punishment or life imprisonment
- MARCH 14, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A fifty two year old housewife, Julaiha Begum, her...
A fifty two year old housewife, Julaiha Begum, her lover Loganatha Venkatesan, and another hired killer, Chandran Rajagopal, were all given the death sentence by the High Court for carrying out a plot to kill Begum's husband, T
- MARCH 14, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
General Radislav Kristic, 52, a Bosnian Serb, went...
General Radislav Kristic, 52, a Bosnian Serb, went on trial charged with planning and ordering the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica, the largest mass killing of civilians in Europe since World War II
- MARCH 14, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Hanoi Court Order Execution Council executed death...
The Hanoi Court Order Execution Council executed death row prisoner Dinh Van Mao at the Cau Nga Shooting Ground
- MARCH 14, 2000ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Patrick Poland, 50, white, was executed by lethal injection
Patrick Poland, 50, white, was executed by lethal injection
- MARCH 14, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, black, was executed by lethal...
Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, black, was executed by lethal injection
- MARCH 13, 2000BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
In a landmark case, a magistrate in Botswana reserved...
In a landmark case, a magistrate in Botswana reserved passing a sentence and ordered a man found guilty of raping a teenage girl to undergo an HIV/AIDS test
- 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 13, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Eugenio Manuvakola, president of breakaway UNITA accused...
Eugenio Manuvakola, president of breakaway UNITA accused UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi of ordering the execution of General Altino Sapalalo Bock, the former chief of staff of UNITA's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola [FALA], and Generals Tarzan and B
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- MARCH 13, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Djergenia, who is prosecutor-general of the unrecognized...
Djergenia, who is prosecutor-general of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, has written to UN Special Representative Dieter Boden denying Georgian media allegations that three Georgian prisoners of war have been executed in Abkhazia's Dranda prison
- MARCH 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A murderer [identified only as] Kabeer was given capital...
A murderer [identified only as] Kabeer was given capital punishment by an additional district and sessions court in Quetta
- MARCH 13, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Lai Chau gave a death sentence...
The People's Court in Lai Chau gave a death sentence to Luong Van Pan, a Laotian, for drug trafficking in November 1998
- MARCH 13, 2000LaosDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Lai Chau, Vietnam, gave a death...
The People's Court in Lai Chau, Vietnam, gave a death sentence to Luong Van Pan, a Laotian, for drug trafficking in November 1998
- MARCH 12, 2000SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Shireh Hasan Ahmad was executed publicly by a firing...
Shireh Hasan Ahmad was executed publicly by a firing squad in Jowhar (south-central Somalia) for killing a woman, Saynab Muhammad, in Gaaleed Village on February 27, 2000
- MARCH 11, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven criminals were executed in Tibet recently for murder
Seven criminals were executed in Tibet recently for murder
- MARCH 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Sukkur sentenced to death...
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Sukkur sentenced to death Ali Dhandho in a case of kidnapping for ransom
- MARCH 10, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The prime minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham declared...
The prime minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham declared his personal opposition to the death penalty but said he does not propose to impose his own moral code and conscience on society
- MARCH 10, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem said in an interview with...
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem said in an interview with that the inclusion of the death penalty in Turkish Penal Code constitutes an impediment for Turkey's membership to the European Union (EU) and Turkey is aware of that fact
- MARCH 9, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court rejected...
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court rejected an appeal against a lower court ruling and upheld a 1997 ruling by the Naha District Court that found Hideo Zamami, 46, guilty of murdering two plainclothes policemen in 1990
- MARCH 9, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult (Supreme...
Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult (Supreme Truth Sect), stood in court for the 148th time on charges of masterminding the March 20, 1995 gas attack
- MARCH 9, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
The exiled Iraqi Communist Party accused President...
The exiled Iraqi Communist Party accused President Saddam Hussein's government of killing 58 prisoners held in solitary confinement, burying the bodies of 14 convicted of "political charges" at al-Zahedi cemetery south of Baghdad, and handing over the bod
- MARCH 9, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeal confirmed a death sentence against...
The Court of Appeal confirmed a death sentence against Kampala businessman Johnson Kamya Wavamunno convicted of murder and robbery by the High Court last year
- 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 9, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hussein Abedini, a member of the foreign affairs committee,...
Hussein Abedini, a member of the foreign affairs committee, said Iranian clerics had carried out some 120,000 executions since 1978, secretly or publicly, and that 700 people had been executed since the beginning of 1999
- MARCH 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Changqing, 48, former Jiangxi Province Deputy Governor,...
Hu Changqing, 48, former Jiangxi Province Deputy Governor, was executed in the provincial capital of Nanchang
- MARCH 8, 2000AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
Eldar Zeynalov said that over that period, nearly 50...
Eldar Zeynalov said that over that period, nearly 50 prisoners had died before the death penalty was executed
- 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, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen command disseminated official data on losses...
The Chechen command disseminated official data on losses of the Chechen and Russian sides during fighting since the beginning of the Russian aggression
- 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 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Special Anti Terrorist Court judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri...
Special Anti Terrorist Court judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri handed out the death sentence to [a person identified only as] Ishtiaq in an abduction cum sodomy case
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Anti Terrorism Court Judge Sukkur Liaquat Hussain imposed...
Anti Terrorism Court Judge Sukkur Liaquat Hussain imposed the death sentence on Rustam and Raza Mohammad, found guilty of the murder of Bashir Ahmed Langah and Hyder Bux Langah
- MARCH 7, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met for talks with...
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met for talks with his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharrazi and with Khatami
- MARCH 7, 2000IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
A poll by the Chicago Tribune shows that support for...
A poll by the Chicago Tribune shows that support for the death penalty among registered voters in Illinois has fallen to 58%, down from 76% in August 1994 and 63% last year
- MARCH 6, 2000BahrainDEATH PENALTY
On March 6, 2000, Sheikh Hamad Bin `Issa Al Khalifa...
On March 6, 2000, Sheikh Hamad Bin `Issa Al Khalifa succeeded his late father Sheikh `Issa Bin Salman Al Khalifa as amir
- MARCH 6, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
The architect Hasib Aslan who designed Saddam's living...
The architect Hasib Aslan who designed Saddam's living quarters in Tikrit, Hillah and A'zamiyah, was arrested and imprisoned in Harithiyah prison, where he was executed on the charge of disclosing secret information on Saddam's palaces
- MARCH 6, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Graham MacIntosh, a KwaZulu-Natal MP, recommended that...
Graham MacIntosh, a KwaZulu-Natal MP, recommended that the party's federal council call on government to establish a commission to investigate the re-imposition of the death penalty
- MARCH 4, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Razmik Azarian, chairman of the Chamber of Appeals...
Razmik Azarian, chairman of the Chamber of Appeals on criminal and military cases, on the question of the abolition of the death penalty said that in his opinion this issue should be solved by a national referendum
- MARCH 4, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences that...
The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences that had been passed on Balal Moazami, Abbas A
- MARCH 4, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Arango Escobar, Guatemalan Ombudsman for Human Rights...
Arango Escobar, Guatemalan Ombudsman for Human Rights announced that the Guatemalan Consul in Belize had taken steps to allow 61 Guatemalan prisoners, some of whom on death row, held in the Central de Hatyville prison in Belize to be deported back to Guat
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- MARCH 3, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Former counterculture guru Ira Einhorn, sheltering...
Former counterculture guru Ira Einhorn, sheltering in France to avoid serving a life term for murdering his girlfriend in America, said he was a symbol of all death row inmates in the U
- MARCH 3, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
- MARCH 3, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to...
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to death for the murder of Abdullah Mohammed Hassan in a dispute over land ownership
- MARCH 3, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Tihomir Blaskic, found guilty by virtue of his individual...
Tihomir Blaskic, found guilty by virtue of his individual and superior responsibility on 3 counts of crimes against humanity, 6 counts of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and 10 counts of violations of the laws or customs of war by Trial Chamber I
- MARCH 3, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Special Anti Terrorist Court Judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri...
Special Anti Terrorist Court Judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri condemned Dhuman Khan to death twice for the murder of two LDA officers, Mian Gull Rukh (Deputy Director LDA) and Chaudhry Mohammad Jahangir (Assistant State Officer) when they came to check the docu
- MARCH 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Former Pakistani Parliamentarian and senior Congress...
Former Pakistani Parliamentarian and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Rasool Kar strongly condemned the excesses of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir and demanded a probe into the Indian brutalities
- MARCH 3, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, on a...
Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, on a visit to Ankara, said that Turkey had made some progress in human rights, however there were still many things to be done in this field
- MARCH 3, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Freddie Lee Wright, 48, black, was executed by electric...
Freddie Lee Wright, 48, black, was executed by electric chair in Hoffman Prison
- MARCH 2, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
In a pre-dawn incursion in a rural Anitioquia county,...
In a pre-dawn incursion in a rural Anitioquia county, paramilitaries massacred eight people
- MARCH 2, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Human rights campaigners in France denounced Governor...
Human rights campaigners in France denounced Governor George W
- MARCH 2, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian Council of Ministers adopted in principle...
The Albanian Council of Ministers adopted in principle Protocol 6 of the Convention on the Defence of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms
- MARCH 2, 2000OmanDEATH PENALTY
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to...
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to death and his nephew to life imprisonment for the fatal stabbing of a man over a land dispute
- MARCH 2, 2000SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH) proposed an...
The Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH) proposed an initiative that would increase punishment for severe criminal offences, in order to stop the upward trend in crime, brutality, and organised crime over the past decade
- 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 2, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Charles T
Charles T
- 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
- MARCH 1, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Odell Barnes was executed by lethal injection at Huntsville...
Odell Barnes was executed by lethal injection at Huntsville prison in Texas
- MARCH 1, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath,...
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath, welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Parliament to abolish the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka at the headquarters...
Russian Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg said that the moratorium on the death penalty remains valid in Russia, and since Chechnya is a part of Russia, the moratorium extends to its territory too
- MARCH 1, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Pavel Krasheninnikov chairman of the legislation committee...
Pavel Krasheninnikov chairman of the legislation committee of the State Duma said he submitted the issue of abrogating capital punishment to the lower house for discussion
- MARCH 1, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty Argentinians including several police officers...
Twenty Argentinians including several police officers are to be tried as accomplices in the 1994 bombing that levelled a Buenos Aires Jewish community centre, killing 86 people and injuring hundreds
- MARCH 1, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said he is determined...
Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said he is determined to take action against suspected Rwandan genocide suspects but will not extradite them because Rwanda continues to impose the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Belgium Foreign Minister Louis Michel said that Belgium...
Belgium Foreign Minister Louis Michel said that Belgium was determined to take action against suspected Rwandan genocide suspects but would not extradite them because Rwanda continues to impose the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000St. Kitts & NevisDEATH PENALTY
An agreement to set up a Caribbean Court of Justice...
An agreement to set up a Caribbean Court of Justice as the region's final court of appeal was discussed during a meeting of leaders from the 15-member regional grouping known as Caricom
- MARCH 1, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath,...
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath, said Hungary welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Parliament to abolish the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Centurion psychiatrist Omar Sabadia lost his appeal...
Centurion psychiatrist Omar Sabadia lost his appeal against his effective 50-year jail term, which he was serving for the 1996 kidnapping and murder of his wife, Zahida Sabadia
- MARCH 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Abdullah ibn Saeed Al-Saeed was beheaded after being...
Abdullah ibn Saeed Al-Saeed was beheaded after being found guilty of raping a five-year-old boy
- MARCH 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sami Manie Al-Shamlan, who was sentenced to be beheaded...
Sami Manie Al-Shamlan, who was sentenced to be beheaded for killing Ali Al-Khaldi, was spared the death sentence after he received a pardon
- MARCH 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Ali ibn Ali Abu Nieb, a Saudi national, was executed...
Ali ibn Ali Abu Nieb, a Saudi national, was executed after being found guilty of raping a man after taking drugs
- MARCH 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional Sessions Judge, Ghulam Hussain Awan handed...
Additional Sessions Judge, Ghulam Hussain Awan handed out the death sentence to Mohammad Ashraf for shooting dead a person in a dispute over land
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- MARCH 1, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian student facing execution for his part in...
An Iranian student facing execution for his part in the violent unrest of last July claimed he had been tortured and ill-treated in prison since his arrest
- MARCH 1, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Odell Barnes Jr, 31, black, was executed by lethal injection
Odell Barnes Jr, 31, black, was executed by lethal injection
- MARCH 1, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
January-March, 2000: Constitutionality of electric chair
January-March, 2000: Constitutionality of electric chair