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- FEBRUARY 22, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A Highland community council applied for planning permission...
A Highland community council applied for planning permission to erect a 30ft set of gallows to mark the 250th anniversary of the wrongful hanging of James of the Glen
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A youth was sentenced to execution in Tehran
A youth was sentenced to execution in Tehran
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
In Indonesia, seven people were formally charged with...
In Indonesia, seven people were formally charged with mass killings in East Timor in the weeks following the province's independence referendum in 1999
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002DEATH PENALTY
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has just adopted a text banning the death penalty in all circumstances, including for crimes committed in times of war and imminent threat of war
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Judge Santos Gil of the Regional Trial Court Branch...
Judge Santos Gil of the Regional Trial Court Branch 6 in Tacloban City meted the death penalty on a 45-year-old man for killing a 4-year-old boy in August 1995
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering...
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering a taxi driver in Singapore has little chance of avoiding execution, a senior labour official said
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering...
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering a taxi driver in Singapore has little chance of avoiding execution, a senior labour official said
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Armenian National Assembly is to ratify the European...
The Armenian National Assembly is to ratify the European Convention on Human Rights and the provision of its sixth protocol to unconditionally abolish capital punishment, as the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided that all member-count
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002LatviaDEATH PENALTY
Latvia's Saeima [Unicameral Parliament] turned over...
Latvia's Saeima [Unicameral Parliament] turned over draft amendments to several laws that are to be harmonized with the international protocol aimed at the abolition of the death penalty to parliamentary commissions
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The US-based organisation Human Rights Watch said an...
The US-based organisation Human Rights Watch said an "overly broad definition" of terrorism in the Suppression of Terrorism Bill under consideration in the Ugandan parliament means there is a risk that innocent people or petty criminals could be "branded"
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Military Appeal Court, sitting at its Makindye...
The Military Appeal Court, sitting at its Makindye headquarters, Kampala, upheld a death sentence against a UPDF soldier accused of killing three of his colleagues in the barracks
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Nationalist Action...
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Nationalist Action Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli reiterated that the death penalty dispute would not cause any problems in the coalition government