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- FEBRUARY 18, 2002BruneiDEATH PENALTY
A father of seven children and an Ex-RBAF Major, Hj...
A father of seven children and an Ex-RBAF Major, Hj Abdur Rafae'e bin Hj Kassim, 37, was acquitted by the High Court of the death penalty on charges of possessing 864
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan national - named Jabbar Tajik, son of Jamal...
An Afghan national - named Jabbar Tajik, son of Jamal - was hanged in Amol for breaking into a house and raping a woman
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A commission of Israel's national bar association condemned...
A commission of Israel's national bar association condemned Israel's policy of extra-judicial killings [of Palestinians]
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan national - named Jabbar Tajik, son of Jamal...
An Afghan national - named Jabbar Tajik, son of Jamal - was hanged in Amol for breaking into a house and raping a woman
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji coup leader George Speight escaped the death penalty...
Fiji coup leader George Speight escaped the death penalty when the South Pacific island nation's president commuted a death sentence for treason to life imprisonment
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Gov. Don Siegelman has asked the Alabama Senate to...
Gov. Don Siegelman has asked the Alabama Senate to give priority to a bill that would change the primary form of execution in Alabama from the electric chair to lethal injection. Alabama and Nebraska are the only 2 states that still use the electric chair
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Samisoni Tikoinasau, the brother of coup leader George...
Samisoni Tikoinasau, the brother of coup leader George Speight, said his brother had been hoodwinked by the military after they promised him and his supporters immunity through the Muanikau Accord which they did not honour
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Deposed the government of Mahendra Chaudhry said he...
Deposed the government of Mahendra Chaudhry said he was surprised by Speight's guilty plea, and the speed with which his sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
New Zealand opposed a death sentence handed down to...
New Zealand opposed a death sentence handed down to Fiji coup leader George Speight, but said he should be jailed for life for overthrowing the South Pacific government in May 2000
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
The managing director of Auckland's Radio Tarana, Robert...
The managing director of Auckland's Radio Tarana, Robert Khan, said the station was flooded with calls from Fiji Indians who were happy at the death sentence but were worried that it would be commuted
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergei Mironov...
Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergei Mironov has spoken in favor of the soonest possible ratification of protocol No
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Analysts at the presidential state law department said...
Analysts at the presidential state law department said that The Russian president has no power to lift the moratorium from the death penalty