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- JULY 8, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Islamic hardliners running Malaysia's eastern Terengganu...
Islamic hardliners running Malaysia's eastern Terengganu state passed criminal laws allowing amputation and death by stoning, ignoring protests they breached the constitution and human rights
- JULY 8, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Florida has delayed two executions scheduled for this...
Florida has delayed two executions scheduled for this week as it considers the impact of a recent US Supreme Court ruling that said death penalty laws in five states are unconstitutional
- JULY 8, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Three men who pulverised a security guard's face in...
Three men who pulverised a security guard's face in a "sadistic and savage" attack were given life sentences for a murder that a senior judge said was like no case he had ever experienced before
- JULY 8, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court in India condemned a man to death for murdering...
A court in India condemned a man to death for murdering his wife
- JULY 8, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A 24-year-old man was sentenced to death by a High...
A 24-year-old man was sentenced to death by a High Court in Malaysia after he was found guilty of murdering a Felda settler
- JULY 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Zahra Shojaei, Iran's presidential adviser on women's...
Zahra Shojaei, Iran's presidential adviser on women's issues, defended the practice of stoning women to death for the crime of adultery, saying the punishment is correct under Islamic sharia law and protects the institution of the family
- JULY 8, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani police said they had arrested two more men...
Pakistani police said they had arrested two more men accused of gang-raping a woman on the orders of a village jury, bringing to four the total held so far, but a fifth suspect was still at large
- JULY 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Zahra Shojaei, Iran's presidential adviser on women's...
Zahra Shojaei, Iran's presidential adviser on women's issues, defended the practice of stoning women to death for the crime of adultery, saying the punishment is correct under Islamic sharia law and protects the institution of the family
- JULY 8, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines raised alarms over plans by President Macapagal-Arroyo to "re-activate" the execution of convicts
- JULY 8, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Barring any change of heart by President Arroyo, the...
Barring any change of heart by President Arroyo, the first ever execution of a death convict under her administration will happen on October 16, Justice Secretary Hernando Perez said
- JULY 8, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Launching a new high-profile crackdown on kidnappings,...
Launching a new high-profile crackdown on kidnappings, President Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the Philippine National Police to neutralize 21 kidnap-for-ransom gangs
- JULY 6, 2002ChileDEATH PENALTY
Around 1,000 people gathered in Santiago in front of...
Around 1,000 people gathered in Santiago in front of the Palace of Justice to protest the court ruling that enabled Augusto Pinochet to avoid trial for allegedly ordering the murder of 75 political opponents in Chile in October 1973