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- JANUARY 8, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Taliban's supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar issued...
Taliban's supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar issued a decree of ban on conversion from Islam
- JANUARY 7, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Faylom, 39, was hanged in public outside Tehran's...
Hassan Faylom, 39, was hanged in public outside Tehran's Qasr prison, for killing his wife, Fatemeh, 24, and his 19-month old daughter, Melika, stabbing them 41 times "in order to satisfy his lust and that of his lover Mojgan"
- JANUARY 7, 2001DEATH PENALTY
A federal judge has stayed the scheduled Jan
A federal judge has stayed the scheduled Jan
- JANUARY 6, 2001GhanaDEATH PENALTY
Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, pardoned Kwame Pianim,...
Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, pardoned Kwame Pianim, an old political foe convicted of treason against his then military government in 1982, who served 10 years in prison after a death sentence
- JANUARY 6, 2001DEATH PENALTY
One arm cradling a bouquet of yellow roses, the other...
One arm cradling a bouquet of yellow roses, the other wrapped tightly around his tearful wife, Peter Limone walked out of Middlesex Superior Courthouse a free man after allegedly being framed for murder by the FBI and spending 33 years in prison, 4 of the
- JANUARY 5, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) executed commanders,...
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) executed commanders, Kagui Gani Abdul and Dong Abdul, in Mamasapano, as the two were about to meet government emissaries working out their return to the fold of the law
- JANUARY 5, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Two Chechen traitors were executed in Urus-Martan after...
Two Chechen traitors were executed in Urus-Martan after the mandate issued by the Mojahedin Military Command Council
- JANUARY 5, 2001DEATH PENALTY
It was revealed that California's 1st university-run...
It was revealed that California's 1st university-run clinic to represent death row inmates, part of a growing national trend to help provide better legal representation for the condemned, will open this year at Boalt Hall law school in Berkeley
- JANUARY 5, 2001SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Shaykh Muhammad Elbur and Shaykh Abdi Farah Weheliye,...
Shaykh Muhammad Elbur and Shaykh Abdi Farah Weheliye, judges of the Islamic court based at the Mogadishu livestock market, ordered the execution of Farah Warsame Halane for killing Abdi Muhammad Hade five days before
- JANUARY 5, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Sen. Walls introduced SB 2249 to eliminate the death...
Sen. Walls introduced SB 2249 to eliminate the death penalty for capital murder. Walls also proposed SB 2654 to eliminate the death penalty for those with mental retardation
- JANUARY 5, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Rep. Tom Burch, D-Lousiville, sponsored a bill (HB122)...
Rep. Tom Burch, D-Lousiville, sponsored a bill (HB122) to abolish executions. The bill would require people who would have received the death penalty to be sentenced to life in prison without parole
- JANUARY 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Guangqiang, a Hong Kong businessman who smuggled...
Li Guangqiang, a Hong Kong businessman who smuggled 33,000 bibles to China in 2000, may face the death penalty for practicing unauthorized religious worship, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said