Chronological archive
June 2000
The 234 news items published by Hands Off Cain in June 2000, in chronological order.
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll shows that only a slim...
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll shows that only a slim majority (51%) of Americans believe the death penalty is applied fairly
- JUNE 30, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
The Libyan government rejected allegations that the...
The Libyan government rejected allegations that the Bulgarian medics had been tortured in prison
- JUNE 30, 2000MozambiqueDEATH PENALTY
The Mozambique Human Rights League [LDH] handed a petition...
The Mozambique Human Rights League [LDH] handed a petition to the attorney-general, listing cases of torture in the country
- JUNE 30, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Big Chitoro, a leading supporter of President Robert...
Big Chitoro, a leading supporter of President Robert Mugabe, was charged with the kidnap and murder of an opposition activist on June 9
- JUNE 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Mariano Santiago, chairman of the Kidney Patient Association...
Mariano Santiago, chairman of the Kidney Patient Association of the Philippines (KPAP) board of trustees, said his group would ask the House of Representatives to allow death row inmates and other convicts to donate their organs in exchange for commutatio
- 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 30, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
About 70 people demonstrated against human rights violations...
About 70 people demonstrated against human rights violations in China in front of the Chinese embassy in Berlin, coinciding with Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji's visit to Germany
- JUNE 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangdong Higher People's Court pronounced death...
The Guangdong Higher People's Court pronounced death sentences on Zhuo Bing and Chen Pei for involvement in counterfeiting bills and coins cases
- 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, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Yasuo Hayashi, a key member of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult,...
Yasuo Hayashi, a key member of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult, was sentenced to death by hanging for taking part in the 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- JUNE 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A convict in a murder case washung to death at the...
A convict in a murder case washung to death at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore
- 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 29, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Two convicted kidnappers were put to death by lethal...
Two convicted kidnappers were put to death by lethal injection at the Pavon prison in an execution shown live on Guatemalan television
- JUNE 29, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 29, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Jessy San Miguel, 29, of Hispanic origin, was put to...
Jessy San Miguel, 29, of Hispanic origin, was put to death by lethal injection
- JUNE 28, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The death reference of Bangabandhu murder case came...
The death reference of Bangabandhu murder case came up for hearing in the Supreme Court
- JUNE 28, 2000DominicaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court judge Dunbar Cenac sentenced Mwanga...
The High Court judge Dunbar Cenac sentenced Mwanga Freeman, 24, and Leroy Langford, 31, to hang for the 1998 murder of Ossie Charles, 38
- JUNE 28, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Assembly of the CE voted in favour...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the CE voted in favour of the admission of Armenia to the Council
- JUNE 28, 2000AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly voted...
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly voted in favour of the Azerbaijani application for membership to the Council of Europe
- JUNE 28, 2000LiberiaDEATH PENALTY
Sources in Monrovia said 14 top security men loyal...
Sources in Monrovia said 14 top security men loyal to President Charles Taylor were secretly executed on charges of plotting to assassinate the president
- JUNE 28, 2000ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court was to consider an application to...
The Supreme Court was to consider an application to abolish the death penalty
- JUNE 28, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was executed for stabbing a fellow citizen to death
A man was executed for stabbing a fellow citizen to death
- JUNE 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Session court in Chashma handed out a...
An Additional Session court in Chashma handed out a death sentence to Kafait Ullah for several murders and possession of illegal weapons
- 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 27, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Radkhantapur man [identified only as] Tazemul was...
A Radkhantapur man [identified only as] Tazemul was given the death penalty for burning his pregnant wife to death
- JUNE 27, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen Interior Ministry issued a statement which...
The Chechen Interior Ministry issued a statement which noted that hostages in Russian concentration camps were being systematically beaten up with special lead-core truncheons and tortured with electricity, pulling out nails, crushing limbs, and using gas
- JUNE 27, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Nicole Cheves, Deputy Consul General of Portugal, conveyed...
Nicole Cheves, Deputy Consul General of Portugal, conveyed to Governor George Bush an urgent humanitarian appeal by the European Union on behalf of Mr
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Tan Huijun, Li Changxing, Duan Faxiang, Jiang Zhidong,...
Tan Huijun, Li Changxing, Duan Faxiang, Jiang Zhidong, Pu Shaogang, Wang Wenfu, Zhu Bixun and Zhu Jiazeng were executed in Baise City and Guigang City in Guangxi because they were found guilty of involvement in four drug-related cases
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four major drug criminals who had been sentenced to...
Four major drug criminals who had been sentenced to death by the intermediate courts in Xian and Baoji and whose death sentences had been approved by the Supreme People's Court, were executed in the two cities
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ordered the execution...
The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ordered the execution of eight drug traffickers including Wang Yan (female), Jin Xiaoli (female), Yang Hansheng, Sun Weiyu, Tao Yaocong, Chen Manchun, Wang Weiping, and Wang Zhanping
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- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Nmber2 Intermediate Court executed the...
The Shanghai Nmber2 Intermediate Court executed the death penalty on two convicted drug traffickers: 36-year old Ma Fenghua and Ma Wenzhong who werefounf guilty of trafficking 5,250 grams of heroin
- 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 26, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The "Jihad in Chechnya" web site said that civilians...
The "Jihad in Chechnya" web site said that civilians from the towns of Shali, Shatoy, Argun and Atmikli were allegedly by taken Russian forces from their houses and have not returned
- JUNE 26, 2000BruneiDEATH PENALTY
Brunei Darussalam observed the International Day against...
Brunei Darussalam observed the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
- JUNE 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement...
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement regarding the transfer of Filipino and British nationals serving prison sentences in the two countries
- JUNE 26, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in China pronounced death sentences on on Burmese drug smugglers Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chongqing Number One Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
Chongqing Number One Intermediate People's Court sentenced 24 alleged drug traffickers to death, the Chongqing Daily reported
- JUNE 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Beijing Number One and Number Two Intermediate People's...
Beijing Number One and Number Two Intermediate People's Courts pronounced death sentences on seven drug traffickers including Zhuang Yuntong, Zhao Peiqing, Ma Zuoqing, Yuan Yuehong, female and Xinjiang female vagrant A-Yi-Gu-Li Yu-Su-Fu
- JUNE 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court held a hearing...
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court held a hearing to try Wu Man, 40, and reiterated that the Chinese mainland has the right to arrest and interrogate him
- JUNE 25, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A man, Zahid [no first name given] of Nazirhat village...
A man, Zahid [no first name given] of Nazirhat village in Sonandanga upazila, was condemned to death for strangling his wife Rahima and daughter Reshma to death, on September 5, 1997
- JUNE 25, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's...
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's most notorious prison camps, was arrested by British troops and flown to The Hague to face trial
- JUNE 24, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hunan People's Courts at different levels in a...
The Hunan People's Courts at different levels in a united action, ordered the executions of 154 drug traffickers and smugglers
- JUNE 24, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
President Fidel Castro in a message sent to the Cuban...
President Fidel Castro in a message sent to the Cuban condemned Gary Graham's execution in Texas as a racist "crime" and cited the execution as an example of why Elian Gonzalez (a Cuban boat boy who had been retained in the United States by his relatives
- JUNE 24, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party...
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party organised a demonstration against the legalisation of drugs
- JUNE 24, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Over 20,000 Kurds demonstrated in Duesseldorf for the...
Over 20,000 Kurds demonstrated in Duesseldorf for the release of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JUNE 24, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence passed...
Iran's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence passed on Soussan Hajirian, 42, who had been convicted of murdering her ex-husband after he beat the couple's children
- JUNE 24, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abbas Yar-Ali, 35, accused of kidnapping and assaulting...
Abbas Yar-Ali, 35, accused of kidnapping and assaulting 13 girls (aged 4 to 9) over a period of 7 years (1989-1996), was hanged in Ghasr prison, Tehran
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Li Ming and ten others (unnamed) to death; Liu Gang and seven others were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's...
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court carried out the instructions of the Guangdong Higher People's Court to execute drug criminals Li Qing, Zhang Kaida, and Huang Hongying
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for...
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for being involved in five drug trafficking cases between 1997 and 1999
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed...
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed 20 kilograms of "drugs" in the provincial capital Chengdu as part of a local narcotics crackdown
- 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, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Gary Graham was executed by the state of Texas, despite...
Gary Graham was executed by the state of Texas, despite claims that he was innocent
- JUNE 23, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
United States prosecutors were given permission by the U
United States prosecutors were given permission by the U
- JUNE 23, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said...
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said the French consul in Houston, speaking for all 15 European Union states, had intervened several times on behalf of Gary Graham, who went to his death proclaiming his innocence after Texas Governor Georg
- JUNE 23, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Ministers adopted the draft-law "On...
The Council of Ministers adopted the draft-law "On some changes in the military penal code
- JUNE 23, 2000TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
United States prosecutors were given permission by the U
United States prosecutors were given permission by the U
- JUNE 23, 2000North MacedoniaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International released a report stating that...
Amnesty International released a report stating that the Macedonian government should investigate serious human rights violations which occurred in Aracinovo earlier this year and ensure that they are never repeated
- JUNE 23, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was executed in the northern city of Tabuk for...
A man was executed in the northern city of Tabuk for stabbing a fellow citizen to death after a dispute
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- JUNE 23, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The federal government submitted a draft of a tough...
The federal government submitted a draft of a tough anti-terrorism law to Parliament
- JUNE 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shahid Saeed was condemned to death for murder
Shahid Saeed was condemned to death for murder
- JUNE 23, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International criticised the summary trials...
Amnesty International criticised the summary trials of more than 2,000 former South Lebanon Army militia members and those said to have "collaborated" with Israel as "travesties" of justice
- JUNE 23, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said...
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said the French consul in Houston, speaking for all 15 EU states, had intervened several times on behalf of Gary Graham, who went to his death proclaiming his innocence after Texas Governor George W
- JUNE 23, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary...
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and Asma Jahangir, the Commission's Special Rapporteur on summary or arbitrary executions, expressed deep regret over the execution of Gary Graham, a prisoner who had been convicted of a cri
- JUNE 23, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands off Cain launched the third Annual Report on...
Hands off Cain launched the third Annual Report on the death penalty situation in the world
- 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 Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced to death seven people with a period of reprieve or life imprisonment
- 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 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Regional Higher People's Court announced that eight...
The Regional Higher People's Court announced that eight of the 13 defendants involved in a drug case were executed
- JUNE 22, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The Assembly of the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb...
The Assembly of the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb Republic, entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina adopted a new criminal code which changed the death penalty to life imprisonment
- JUNE 22, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
The speaker of the French parliament Raymond Forni...
The speaker of the French parliament Raymond Forni urged Texas Governor George Bush to postpone the execution of death row inmate Gary Graham and allow an appeal of the murder conviction based on the testimony of a single witness
- JUNE 22, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called on the government to take...
Amnesty International called on the government to take steps to protect the civilian population from further atrocities
- JUNE 22, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Lahore High Court upheld the...
A division bench of the Lahore High Court upheld the death sentences imposed on Fitrat Nabi Noor, alias Saqa Moser, and Humayun Raza, alias Humma, for murdering Mohammad Ilyas and his wife Abida Parveen on resistance during a dacoity attempt
- JUNE 22, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Judge Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore handed...
A Special Judge Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore handed down a death sentence to Mushtaq Ahmad for a dacoity cum murder case
- JUNE 22, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Gary Graham, 36, also known as Shaka Sankofa, was executed...
Gary Graham, 36, also known as Shaka Sankofa, was executed after spending 19 years on death row
- JUNE 21, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
During a press conference in Sofia, the relatives of...
During a press conference in Sofia, the relatives of the six Bulgarian medics insisted that the Bulgarian authorities take the necessary steps for finally constituting Bulgarian lawyer Vladimir Sheitanov as lawyer of the defence, even if this requires a r
- JUNE 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hubei Province Higher People's Court sentenced...
The Hubei Province Higher People's Court sentenced Zhou Mingrong to death with a two year reprieve
- JUNE 21, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The families of two victims of convicted killer Toshihiko...
The families of two victims of convicted killer Toshihiko Hasegawa asked the Justice Ministry to commute his death sentence to life in prison
- JUNE 21, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Members of the Kurdistan information and Cultural Office,...
Members of the Kurdistan information and Cultural Office, in Budapest, ended a five day hunger strike
- JUNE 21, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
The government of Sierra Leone asked the United Nations...
The government of Sierra Leone asked the United Nations Security Council to set up a special court to try rebel leader Foday Sankoh, saying the country lacked the resources to try crimes of such magnitude
- JUNE 21, 2000SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
In reference to Li Peng's visit, the Slovakian daily...
In reference to Li Peng's visit, the Slovakian daily Sme wrote that Premier Mikulas Dzurinda did not have the guts to say that the Slovak government cannot agree with the persecution of political opponents and execution of political prisoners in China
- JUNE 21, 2000TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
130 people were executed in Tunisia since independence...
130 people were executed in Tunisia since independence in 1956, Tunisian daily L'Observateur reported
- JUNE 21, 2000SyriaDEATH PENALTY
The Muslim Brotherhood movement in Syria expressed...
The Muslim Brotherhood movement in Syria expressed its readiness to deal with the new Syrian leadership
- 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 21, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that capital...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that capital punishment can be abolished if it is removed from the framework of Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code [TCK], which formed the basis of the conviction of terrorist Abdullah Ocalan and many other Kurdis
- JUNE 21, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
National Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu said...
National Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu said that his office would take up the death sentence handed down to terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan one more time
- JUNE 21, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
A Scripps-Howard Poll found that 57% of Texans surveyed...
A Scripps-Howard Poll found that 57% of Texans surveyed believe Texas has executed someone who was innocent of the crime, and 3 out of 4 respondents said the state should declare a moratorium on death sentences in cases that might be affected by DNA testi
- JUNE 21, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Thomas Provenzano, 51, white, was put to death by lethal...
Thomas Provenzano, 51, white, was put to death by lethal injection in Florida State Prison, Starke
- JUNE 21, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Al Gore interjected himself Wednesday into the death-penalty...
Al Gore interjected himself Wednesday into the death-penalty maelstrom surrounding Republican rival George W
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- JUNE 21, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The (government) DS leader Walter Veltroni sent a letter...
The (government) DS leader Walter Veltroni sent a letter to all political party leaders appealing for unanimous support to a parliamentary motion to save [Virginia death row inmate] Rocco Derek Barnabei's life
- JUNE 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zulikar Memet, a man accused of helping separatist...
Zulikar Memet, a man accused of helping separatist ethnic Turkic Uighurs, was secretly executed after being held in isolation since his arrest in mid-1998
- JUNE 20, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that in February six men, Osmany Brito...
It was reported that in February six men, Osmany Brito Cartaya, Alberto Diaz Perez, Julio Alberto Morales Montero, Morlaix Nodal Pozo, Reidel Rodriguez Reyes and Hector Santana Vega, were sentenced to death for killing five guards during a bloody jailbrea
- JUNE 20, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
President Thabo Mbeki and several South African political...
President Thabo Mbeki and several South African political parties expressed their sorrow at news of the death of Chief Justice Ismail Mohamed
- JUNE 20, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Sain was condemned to death by an Additional...
Akbar Sain was condemned to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore for murdering [a person identified only as] Nasir over a money dispute in the Audit Officer Colony of Gulberg on July 13 ,1997
- JUNE 20, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Kalinaw Mindanao, the fact-finding group commissioned...
Kalinaw Mindanao, the fact-finding group commissioned by the House committee on human rights, reported that two Moro farmers, Kole Jalodin and Nasser Tambag, were summarily executed at the height of military offensives in Pikit
- JUNE 20, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait's Court of Appeals upheld a death sentence against...
Kuwait's Court of Appeals upheld a death sentence against Kader Bee Palagiri, a 22 year old Indian maid, for killing her 80-year-old Kuwaiti employer and stealing her money and jewellery in 1999
- JUNE 19, 2000BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom)...
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations met in Jamaica to discuss how to set up and pay for a proposed Caribbean court to replace the British Privy Council as the region's final court of appeal
- JUNE 19, 2000JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom)...
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations met in Jamaica to discuss how to set up and pay for a proposed Caribbean court that would replace the British Privy Council as the region's final court of appeal
- JUNE 19, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian man had his hand amputated in Saudi Arabia...
A Nigerian man had his hand amputated in Saudi Arabia for pickpocketing
- JUNE 19, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
The Belgian Refugees Department Chairmanship rejected...
The Belgian Refugees Department Chairmanship rejected the application of Fehriye Erdal for political asylum
- JUNE 19, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian woman, Warni Samiran...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian woman, Warni Samiran Audi, for murder
- JUNE 19, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
A court in Sanaa sentenced seven people to death for...
A court in Sanaa sentenced seven people to death for belonging to a group involved in banditry and the kidnapping of foreigners
- JUNE 19, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Warni Samiran Awdi, an Indonesian maid from Malang,...
Warni Samiran Awdi, an Indonesian maid from Malang, East Jave, who killed her employer's wife in 1998 by beating her on the head with an iron pipe, was beheaded in al-Ihsa region
- JUNE 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore Zawar Ahmad meted out deathsentences to Muhammad Khan Chachar and Yousaf Bogio for firing on Imran Aziz, son of Supreme Court Judge Rashid Aziz Khan and murdering his assistant Ghulam Mustafa
- 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 17, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
A Bulgarian Parliamentary delegation returned from...
A Bulgarian Parliamentary delegation returned from Tripoli with the pledge of a fair trial for the six Bulgarian medics implicated in the HIV infection scandal in Libya
- JUNE 17, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation...
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation of Crimes (UDV) said in its report Performed Capital Punishments in Czechoslovakia in 1918-1989 that Czechoslovak courts sentenced to death 1,207 people between 1918 and 1989 when the capital punishment w
- JUNE 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias...
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias Shahjee and Zahid, were condemned to death for a double murder during a robbery by an additional district and session court in Faisalabad
- JUNE 17, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Yildirim Akbulut, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National...
Yildirim Akbulut, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly [TBMM], said that abolishing the death penalty was not as easy as one might think at the moment
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhu Zexin, alias Zhang Xiong, to death with a two-year reprieve
- 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, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Intermediate Court of the Ziyang Prefecture, Sichuan,...
The Intermediate Court of the Ziyang Prefecture, Sichuan, sentenced six backbone members of a criminal gang, including Zhang Yi, to death
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing...
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing that mainlanders sent back to face trial under a rendition agreement would not be executed
- JUNE 16, 2000Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing...
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing that mainlanders sent back to face trial under a rendition agreement would not be executed
- JUNE 16, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors filed an appeal at the Tokyo High Court...
Prosecutors filed an appeal at the Tokyo High Court against the lower court's June 6 ruling sentencing former Aum Shinri Kyo member Yoshihiro Inoue to life in prison
- JUNE 16, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone's permanent representative to the UN,...
Sierra Leone's permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Ibrahim Kamara, said the court would probably combine elements of Sierra Leonean and international law, and might be based in another country in the region, such as Nigeria, Mali or Senegal
- JUNE 16, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
In a statement, the Vatican said it was happy about...
In a statement, the Vatican said it was happy about the acquittal but noted that thousands of other prisoners were still languishing in jails
- JUNE 16, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
In a statement, the Vatican said it was happy about...
In a statement, the Vatican said it was happy about the acquittal but noted that thousands of other prisoners were still languishing in jails
- JUNE 16, 2000SyriaDEATH PENALTY
A Lebanese military court put 29 alleged followers...
A Lebanese military court put 29 alleged followers of Saudi-exile Osama bin Laden on trial on charges of planning attacks on U
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- JUNE 16, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a Pakistani...
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a Pakistani man was beheaded in Dammam after being found guilty of smuggling an unspecified amount of heroin into the country
- JUNE 16, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Pakistanis and two Bangladeshis were executed...
Three Pakistanis and two Bangladeshis were executed Riyadh after having been found guilty of murder
- JUNE 16, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Gholam Ghaws was executed in public at the sports stadium...
Gholam Ghaws was executed in public at the sports stadium of the Herat Province
- 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 16, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Aralbek Sherbotayev, 24, was sentenced to death by...
Aralbek Sherbotayev, 24, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Shymkent
- JUNE 15, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five men, Xiaokelaiti Makmuti, Maimaiti Turxun, Kader...
Five men, Xiaokelaiti Makmuti, Maimaiti Turxun, Kader Asker Zunong, Abduriyimu Maimaitiyimin, Adbunur Abulimuti, all ethnic Turkic Uighurs native to the region, accused of terrorist activities in the far northern Chinese region of Xinjiang were executed i
- JUNE 15, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
A Rwandan court acquitted the Roman Catholic bishop...
A Rwandan court acquitted the Roman Catholic bishop Augustin Misago of genocide charges, ruling he played no part in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis in 1994
- JUNE 15, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
A Rwandan court acquitted the Roman Catholic bishop...
A Rwandan court acquitted the Roman Catholic bishop Augustin Misago of genocide charges, ruling he played no part in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis in 1994
- JUNE 15, 2000SyriaDEATH PENALTY
Syrian authorities arrested two suspects in the killing...
Syrian authorities arrested two suspects in the killing of University Military Training Department Commander, Major General Khalil Ibrahim al-Mustafa, who was stabbed to death in his Damascus apartment
- JUNE 15, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Molla Nasrollahi, Ali Rad, 27, Abbas Dasht-Peyman,...
Molla Nasrollahi, Ali Rad, 27, Abbas Dasht-Peyman, 22, and M
- JUNE 15, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
William Clifford Bryson, 29, black, was put to death...
William Clifford Bryson, 29, black, was put to death by lethal injection
- JUNE 15, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Paul Nuncio, 32, of Latin-American origin, was executed...
Paul Nuncio, 32, of Latin-American origin, was executed by lethal injection
- JUNE 15, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
At her weekly Justice Department news briefing, U
At her weekly Justice Department news briefing, U
- 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 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Vice-Minister of Justice Duan Zhengkun said that since...
Vice-Minister of Justice Duan Zhengkun said that since China introduced its legal aid system in late 1996, 400,000 disadvantaged people, have benefited from the government-funded programmes
- JUNE 14, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
Senior Roman Catholic Church figures closed ranks in...
Senior Roman Catholic Church figures closed ranks in support of Bishop Augustin Misago, accused of helping to plan the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
- JUNE 14, 2000QatarDEATH PENALTY
Three Indians were executed for murder under Islamic...
Three Indians were executed for murder under Islamic Sharia law
- JUNE 14, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Nigerians, Erivesto Anderson, 30, Michael Philip,...
Three Nigerians, Erivesto Anderson, 30, Michael Philip, 28, and Lawrence Osayi Erabor, 42, were sentenced to death by the High Court for committing the murders at a shop in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman on Feb 20, 1997
- JUNE 14, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
In the name of fighting Islamic terrorism Uzbek authorities...
In the name of fighting Islamic terrorism Uzbek authorities imprisoned at least 5,000 people, Uzbek human rights advocates said
- JUNE 14, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
John Burks, 44, black, was executed by lethal injection
John Burks, 44, black, was executed by lethal injection
- JUNE 14, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The president of the Tuscan region, Claudio Martini,...
The president of the Tuscan region, Claudio Martini, decided to appeal to the Virginia state governor, James S
- JUNE 13, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
More than 100 Romanian journalists, attending the "Forum...
More than 100 Romanian journalists, attending the "Forum of the Romanian Press Everywhere" appealed to the Presidents, Governments and Parliaments of Romania, the Republic of Moldova and the Ukraine for a firm intervention to obtain the release of Romania
- 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, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian government approved the draft-law
The Albanian government approved the draft-law "On ratifying Protocol VI of the European Human Rights Convention
- JUNE 13, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The 1st Ankara DGM [State Security Court] sentenced...
The 1st Ankara DGM [State Security Court] sentenced DHKP-C [Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front] member Cemalettin Polat to death for "attempting to change the constitution of the Turkish Republic through the force of arms"
- 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 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liao Zhi, 38, to death for manufacturing 730 kg of the narcotic "ice"
- JUNE 12, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Mistakes in capital cases
Mistakes in capital cases
- JUNE 12, 2000PolandDEATH PENALTY
Lech Kaczynski, the Justice Minister, said he believed...
Lech Kaczynski, the Justice Minister, said he believed that there was a need for tougher sentences
- JUNE 12, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A murder convict whose black warrants had been issued...
A murder convict whose black warrants had been issued was pardoned by the heirs of the deceased and set free by the District and Sessions Judge in Gujranwala
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- JUNE 12, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Qatar said it had executed three Indians for murder,...
Qatar said it had executed three Indians for murder, the first time the Gulf Arab state has imposed the death penalty in over three decades
- JUNE 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Industry and Commerce Minister Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu...
The Industry and Commerce Minister Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu said that given the current conditions in Turkey, it was too early to abolish the death sentence
- JUNE 12, 2000KenyaDEATH PENALTY
21 university students were charged with robbery with...
21 university students were charged with robbery with violence, an offence which carries the death penalty as a maximum sentence, following riots at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
- JUNE 12, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Major Yan Myint, deputy commander of Myanmar's 224th...
Major Yan Myint, deputy commander of Myanmar's 224th Battalion, arrested nine alleged traffickers at Ban Nakongmoo while they were attempting to cross into Thailand's Chiang Mai Province and confiscated drugs, according to a Thai official
- JUNE 12, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Thomas Wayne Mason, 48, white, was put to death by...
Thomas Wayne Mason, 48, white, was put to death by lethal injection
- JUNE 11, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Wahhab Abdallah Tuta'il, an Indian man convicted of...
Wahhab Abdallah Tuta'il, an Indian man convicted of smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia, was beheaded
- 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, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling drugs into the kingdom
- 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 10, 2000United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
William Hague, the leader of the opposition said in...
William Hague, the leader of the opposition said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that he backed capital punishment, although he recognised that it was unlikely to be restored
- JUNE 10, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Raymond Forni, the speaker of France's National Assembly,...
Raymond Forni, the speaker of France's National Assembly, slammed the death penalty in the United States at a human rights conference
- JUNE 10, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Raymond Forni, the speaker of France's National Assembly,...
Raymond Forni, the speaker of France's National Assembly, slammed the death penalty in the United States and said one-time Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal should not be executed
- JUNE 10, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sa'd Bin-Fatis Bin-Abdallah al-Zahrani was executed...
Sa'd Bin-Fatis Bin-Abdallah al-Zahrani was executed in Al-Mindak Governorate, Al-Bahah region
- JUNE 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abbas Mahmoudi, convicted of a murder that took place...
Abbas Mahmoudi, convicted of a murder that took place in 1994, was executed in public in the village of Shaam Asbi (near Ardebil)
- JUNE 10, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Virtue Party [FP] leader Recai Kutan said that "Ocalan...
Virtue Party [FP] leader Recai Kutan said that "Ocalan must be executed"
- JUNE 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Beijing City No 2 Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Beijing City No 2 Intermediate Court sentenced Liu Chunyang, 29, a university graduate and model, to death, suspended for two years, and confiscated all her property, for running a brothel that earned tens of thousands of yuan a day
- JUNE 9, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
A Jordanian national was executed after pleading guilty...
A Jordanian national was executed after pleading guilty of spying on the Iraqi regime
- JUNE 8, 2000CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Fang Yong, 35, a former bank accountant extradited...
Fang Yong, 35, a former bank accountant extradited by Canada to China, was given the death penalty by the Ningbo People's Intermediate Court for embezzling public funds
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinhua Municipal Intermediate People's Court implemented...
The Jinhua Municipal Intermediate People's Court implemented the death sentence on He Shi and Qiu Xuanming for evading huge amounts of taxes using false value-added tax invoices
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Huang Faxiang, former director of the State Land Resources...
Huang Faxiang, former director of the State Land Resources of Fengdu County, Chongqing Municipality, was executed for grafting more than 15 million yuan (1
- 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 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections,...
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections, authorities in Sichuan province used the method to execute eight people following an order by the Supreme People's Court
- JUNE 8, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Bereaved families of victims and survivors of the subway...
Bereaved families of victims and survivors of the subway gassing blasted the Tokyo District Court for not Inoue Yoshihiro the death penalty
- JUNE 8, 2000EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt promised to help solve a dispute between Bulgaria...
Egypt promised to help solve a dispute between Bulgaria and Libya over the trial of six medical staff accused by Libya of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus who could face the death penalty if convicted
- JUNE 8, 2000NamibiaDEATH PENALTY
Felizberto Toto, 35, was summarily executed by NDF...
Felizberto Toto, 35, was summarily executed by NDF soldiers because he was believed to be a member of the Angolan rebel group Unita
- JUNE 8, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Parliament amended the penal code to substitute the...
Parliament amended the penal code to substitute the death penalty for life imprisonment
- JUNE 8, 2000KenyaDEATH PENALTY
A man who appealed against his eight-year prison sentence...
A man who appealed against his eight-year prison sentence for robbery was instead given a death sentence
- JUNE 8, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Roger James Berget, 39, white, was executed by lethal...
Roger James Berget, 39, white, was executed by lethal injection in the Oklahome State Penitentiary of McAlester
- JUNE 7, 2000TogoDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations announced it would probe the murder...
The United Nations announced it would probe the murder of hundreds of people in Togo two years ago, allegedly by paramilitary forces after 1998 presidential elections
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- JUNE 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Taiyuan Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed...
The Taiyuan Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed a death sentence on convicted criminal Li Xiaolong 35
- JUNE 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Because of the spread of AIDS in the Russian, the governor...
Because of the spread of AIDS in the Russian, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, said there should be a referendum in the region about bringing back the death penalty for those who dealt drugs
- JUNE 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Army General Andrei Nikolayev, chairman of the State...
Army General Andrei Nikolayev, chairman of the State Duma lower house of parliament defence committee said that the main authority in Chechnya should be executed by a special envoy of the Russian President in the framework of the direct federal rule
- 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 7, 2000LaosDEATH PENALTY
Bounthanh Thammavong, the leader of the Laotian Executive...
Bounthanh Thammavong, the leader of the Laotian Executive Council for Independence and Democracy, asked Poland for help in preventing the Vietnamese intervention in Laos
- JUNE 7, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Florida's third death by lethal injection went awry...
Florida's third death by lethal injection went awry and was delayed for 33 minutes as technicians struggled to insert a lethal IV into the veins of a 49-year-old killer
- JUNE 7, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Bennie Demps, 49, white, was executed by lethal injection...
Bennie Demps, 49, white, was executed by lethal injection in Florida State Prison, near Starke
- JUNE 6, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Inoue Yoshihiro was sentenced to life in prison for...
Inoue Yoshihiro was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1995 nerve gas attack Tokyo's subway
- JUNE 6, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait has handed over a wanted Moslem militant to...
Kuwait has handed over a wanted Moslem militant to Egypt and the United Arab Emirates has almost certainly deported another, said a London-based Islamist, Yasser el-Serri, who runs the Islamic Observation Centre pressure group
- JUNE 6, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Salih Hamad Muhammad Al-Ziyadi, an Iraqi national,...
Salih Hamad Muhammad Al-Ziyadi, an Iraqi national, was beheaded in Rafha after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country
- JUNE 6, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Iraq executed Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu, a Jordanian national...
Iraq executed Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu, a Jordanian national who was arrested in 1993 and was later sentenced to death by an Iraqi court for taking part in a plot against Iraq and its leadership
- JUNE 6, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Javad Haddadi was sentenced to 99 lashings and death,...
Javad Haddadi was sentenced to 99 lashings and death, and Batoul Ahmadi was sentenced to 99 lashings and 15 years for killing Batoul's husband, Javad Ahmadi
- JUNE 6, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament said after talks with Turkey...
The European Parliament said after talks with Turkey that Ankara's failure to abolish the death penalty remained an obstacle to better relations as it seeks membership of the European Union
- JUNE 6, 2000LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
Feltus Taylor, 38, black, was executed by lethal injection...
Feltus Taylor, 38, black, was executed by lethal injection in Louisiana State Penitentiary
- JUNE 5, 2000CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien claimed at an...
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien claimed at an international conference in Ottawa that [former] US President Bill Clinton was "jealous" of Canada
- JUNE 5, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wu Biao, ex-director of the Jiangdong business department...
Wu Biao, ex-director of the Jiangdong business department under the Ningbo International Fiduciary Investment Company was sentenced to death for taking and offering bribes
- JUNE 5, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
The U
The U
- JUNE 5, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE deported Mohamed al-Zawahri, deputy leader of Egypt's...
UAE deported Mohamed al-Zawahri, deputy leader of Egypt's Jihad (Holy War) group, to Cairo, said a London-based Islamist, Yasser el-Serri, who runs the Islamic Observation Centre pressure group
- JUNE 5, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Ayman al-Majali, Jordan's acting Foreign Minister,...
Ayman al-Majali, Jordan's acting Foreign Minister, summoned the Iraqi envoy in Amman and "expressed the Jordanian government's protest against and astonishment at the execution of Jordanian citizen Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu without a prior announcement of th
- JUNE 5, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
The U
The U
- JUNE 4, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court of Libya adjourned the trial of...
The People's Court of Libya adjourned the trial of the six Bulgarian medics charged with infecting intentionally Libyan children with the AIDS virus to September 17
- JUNE 4, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Over 1,000 Bulgarians holding lighted candles gathered...
Over 1,000 Bulgarians holding lighted candles gathered at the Libyan embassy in Sofia to support the six Bulgarian health workers facing trial in Libya on charges of infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus
- JUNE 4, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court of Libya adjourned for September...
The People's Court of Libya adjourned for September 17 the trial of the six Bulgarian medics charged with infecting intentionally Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- JUNE 4, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
The UN mission in Sierra Leone launched an investigation...
The UN mission in Sierra Leone launched an investigation into human rights abuses by fighting forces, an official of the mission said
- JUNE 4, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sa'id Bin-Salim Bin-Sa'id was executed in Mecca
Sa'id Bin-Salim Bin-Sa'id was executed in Mecca
- JUNE 4, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The London-based human rights group Caribbean Justice,...
The London-based human rights group Caribbean Justice, which works for the abolition of the death penalty, said that Trinidad and Tobago was not a safer place and the murder rate was climbing despite 11 state executions in 1999
- JUNE 3, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The UAE Central Bank called for the death penalty to...
The UAE Central Bank called for the death penalty to be applied worldwide for drug trafficking
- JUNE 3, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of former SLA members who surrendered to...
Relatives of former SLA members who surrendered to the government demanded to know the conditions in which they were being held and the likely lengths of their prison sentences before encouraging the return of those who fled to Israel
- JUNE 3, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, in a statement from death...
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, in a statement from death row, said that a general amnesty must be legislated, so that arms could be laid down
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- JUNE 2, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The Bulgarian justice minister, Teodosiy Simeonov,...
The Bulgarian justice minister, Teodosiy Simeonov, said that the six Bulgarian medics detained in Libya had been tortured
- 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 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jining Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed...
The Jining Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed death sentence on Li Jie with a two-year reprieve for intentional homicide
- JUNE 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
22 people were executed in Beijing after the Supreme...
22 people were executed in Beijing after the Supreme People's Court upheld their sentences for murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and rape
- JUNE 2, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The government issued a statement that defended the...
The government issued a statement that defended the December 1999 execution of a death-row inmate who had been requesting a retrial
- JUNE 2, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a drug gang were sentenced to death...
Two members of a drug gang were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court for possessing 190,000 speed pills with intent to sell
- JUNE 2, 2000IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer wrote a private letter...
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer wrote a private letter to the attorney-general
- JUNE 2, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Pernell Ford, 35, black, was executed by electric chair
Pernell Ford, 35, black, was executed by electric chair
- JUNE 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
June 23-26, 2000: the Higher People's Court pronounced...
June 23-26, 2000: the Higher People's Court pronounced the execution of seven principal drug traffickers including Zhang Qingai, Mo Daiqin, Jiang Xixin, Cheng Hua, Cheng Yun, Liu Guifen and Sun Gaolin
- JUNE 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court approved...
The Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court approved the death sentence on Gui Weishu for abducting and murdering Qu Chaoliang, a judge of the Xuanhan County Court
- 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, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
It was quoted that residents in the area of Camacupa...
It was quoted that residents in the area of Camacupa as saying that UNITA also executed 37 traditional chiefs by hanging
- JUNE 1, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
According to the information available to the Chief...
According to the information available to the Chief of Russia's General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin, Aslan Maskhadov signed a decree ordering to expose the Chechens cooperating with federal authorities
- JUNE 1, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian journalist who worked for...
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian journalist who worked for Radio Television libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) and who pleaded guilty to direct and public incitement to commit genocide and persecution in Rwanda in 1994 received a 12-year jail sentence from a United
- JUNE 1, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian national who worked as a...
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian national who worked as a journalist in Rwanda during the events of 1994, pleaded guilty to, and was subsequently convicted by Trial Chamber I of direct and public incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity (persecu
- JUNE 1, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International accused the ruling ZANU PF party...
Amnesty International accused the ruling ZANU PF party of extrajudicial executions and of torturing opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters in the run-up to the elections to be held on the 24th and 25th of June
- 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
- JUNE 1, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohd Zaiham Mislan, 25, from Johor Baru, was sentenced...
Mohd Zaiham Mislan, 25, from Johor Baru, was sentenced to death by the High Court after he was found guilty of trafficking 45
- JUNE 1, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Zoran Balinovac, Deputy Justice Minster of the Republic...
Zoran Balinovac, Deputy Justice Minster of the Republic of Serbia said that "a law against terrorism is necessary in order for us to be able to react suitably and appropriately to the situation that our country is in, as well as to protect the constitutio
- JUNE 1, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Additional district session judge M H Shah meted out...
Additional district session judge M H Shah meted out the death sentence to Vashram Narsinh Rajpara for killing his wife and four daughters by setting them on fire while they were sleeping on May 22, 1999
- JUNE 1, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
President Alfonso Portillo granted clemency to an illiterate...
President Alfonso Portillo granted clemency to an illiterate Kekchi-speaking peasant farmer, Pedro Rax Cucul, who had been sentenced to death for a 1996 murder
- JUNE 1, 2000MarylandDEATH PENALTY
Maryland Gov
Maryland Gov
- JUNE 1, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
James Glenn Robedeaux, 51, black, was executed by lethal...
James Glenn Robedeaux, 51, black, was executed by lethal injection