2002

Three alleged drug criminals, including Wang Shiguo...

Three alleged drug criminals, including Wang Shiguo (3769 0013 0948), Li Ping (2621 1627) and Hu Rujun (5706 1172 0193) were executed in Shanghai for drug smuggling and trafficking, the Jiefang Daily reported

Only juries can impose death penalty, Supreme Court rules

Only juries can impose death penalty.

Council of Europe Secretary-General Walter Schwimmer...

Council of Europe Secretary-General Walter Schwimmer categorically ruled out the possibility of allowing the death penalty to be imposed on those responsible for the Armenian parliamentary shootings saying that abolition of the death penalty was non-negot

Scot businessman Michael McCrae, 44, is wanted by authorities...

Scot businessman Michael McCrae, 44, is wanted by authorities in Singapore after the bodies of his chauffeur and a mystery woman were found in a luxury car

Scot businessman Michael McCrae, 44, is wanted by authorities...

Scot businessman Michael McCrae, 44, is wanted by authorities in Singapore after the bodies of his chauffeur and a mystery woman were found in a luxury car

In the latest in a series of human rights trials related...

In the latest in a series of human rights trials related to East Timor's independence in 1999, a senior Indonesian officer appeared in court in Jakarta accused of failing to prevent a massacre of 12 civilians

A high court in Jigawa State has sentenced a 25-year-old...

A high court in Jigawa State has sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for raping a 76-year-old woman to death, while a Sharia court in Bauchi has ordered the amputation of the right hand of a man for stealing domestic items estimated at N19,800

Abbas Ali was hanged in jail in Mashdad, Iran

Abbas Ali was hanged in jail in Mashdad, Iran

Real Slovak National Party (PSNS) boss Jan Slota criticized...

Real Slovak National Party (PSNS) boss Jan Slota criticized Slovakia's decision to sign a protocol No

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation...

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has been informed by the Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), a member of the OMCT network, that 12 prisoners that were charged with armed robbery were hanged on May 22nd

A Tehran court sentenced Hamid Allah Assadzadeh to execution

A Tehran court sentenced Hamid Allah Assadzadeh to execution

Four men were sentenced to death by South China's Shenzhen...

Four men were sentenced to death by South China's Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court

The Motherland Party (ANAP) decided that an amendment...

The Motherland Party (ANAP) decided that an amendment has to be made in the law and also a constitutional amendment has to be undertaken at the same time for abolishment of death penalty

Judicial organs in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, convened...

Judicial organs in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, convened rallies in Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Putian to pronounce execution of 16 drug criminals, the Fujian Daily reported

With the approval of the Supreme People's Court, a...

With the approval of the Supreme People's Court, a court in Xiamen, Fujian Province, executed an alleged drug trafficker from Taiwan, Li Yuzhang (2621 3022 3864), the People's Daily reported

Six convicts of mob justice were sentenced to death...

Six convicts of mob justice were sentenced to death by the High Court in Jinja

NIGERIA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO STONING

DEATH PENALTY EMERGENCY IN SUDAN

12 prisoners hanged in May and 15 are awaiting for executions in Dafour

In its final trial, railway transport courts in Chengdu,...

In its final trial, railway transport courts in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and Guiyang, Guizhou Province, sentenced five alleged drug traffickers, including Liu Quanyu (0491 0356 3768), Yang Fen (2799 5358), female, Zhang Xiaohui (1728 1420 2585), Ma Lian

A barber from Hong Kong whose death sentence for dadah...

A barber from Hong Kong whose death sentence for dadah trafficking was upheld by the Federal Court of Malaysia, last year is seeking a review of his conviction because the chemist who analysed the dadah sample had failed to state its actual weight

A barber from Hong Kong whose death sentence for dadah...

A barber from Hong Kong whose death sentence for dadah trafficking was upheld by the Federal Court last year is seeking a review of his conviction because the chemist who analysed the dadah sample had failed to state its actual weight

January 24-June 21, 2002: tens of thousands of political...

January 24-June 21, 2002: tens of thousands of political prisoners face starvation, torture and summary execution in prison camps in North Korea, according to the testimony of a prisoner to a US Senate inquiry

In Japan, prison inmates will be given a rare privilege...

In Japan, prison inmates will be given a rare privilege to watch the World Cup [soccer - from May 31 to June 30] matches on television

In Japan, prison inmates will be given a rare privilege...

In Japan, prison inmates will be given a rare privilege to watch the World Cup [soccer - from May 31 to June 30] matches on television

A criminal court in Gitega, 70 kilometers east of the...

A criminal court in Gitega, 70 kilometers east of the Burundi capital of Bujumbura, sentenced to death 11 people with 16 others to life imprisonment for their participating in massacres some ten years ago

Lai Changxing, China's most wanted fugitive who allegedly...

Lai Changxing, China's most wanted fugitive who allegedly oversaw a huge smuggling empire, was denied political asylum by a Canadian immigration panel

The Black Saints Arts stage their two man act play...

The Black Saints Arts stage their two man act play Kiss the Hangman at the Chingola Arts Society on June 29 and 30

The family of a man executed for killing factory his...

The family of a man executed for killing factory his boss after being laid off insisted that Xu Yudong never planned to murder and that he should have been spared the death sentence

Lai Changxing, China's most wanted fugitive who allegedly...

Lai Changxing, China's most wanted fugitive who allegedly oversaw a huge smuggling empire, was denied political asylum by a Canadian immigration panel

Pakistani District Judge Mian Faiz Muhammad gave the...

Pakistani District Judge Mian Faiz Muhammad gave the death penalty to Liaquat Ali for killing a retired army man Muhammad Ali on April 15, 1996