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APRIL 17, 2003Cuba
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The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment...
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment criticizing a dissident crackdown by Cuba, but instead approved a milder resolution calling for a UN rights monitor to visit the island
APRIL 17, 2003Italy
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Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row,...
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row, intervened at the UN Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Transational Radical Party
APRIL 17, 2003
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Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row,...
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row, intervened at the UN Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Transational Radical Party
APRIL 17, 2003Iran
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The website of the Iranian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami...
The website of the Iranian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami reported that verdicts issued against five persons condemned to death for rape and murder had been implemented at Tehran's Qasr Prison
APRIL 17, 2003
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Melanie Sammons Anderson, 39, who was sentenced to...
Melanie Sammons Anderson, 39, who was sentenced to death in 1996 now has a life sentence after a judge ruled that she was mentally retarded
APRIL 17, 2003
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The state of Oklahoma executed Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40
The state of Oklahoma executed Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40
APRIL 17, 2003
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LEROY ORANGE SPEAKS AT THE UN AND CALLS FOR A GLOBAL MORATORIUM
April 17th 2003: Leroy Orange is a former death row inmate from Illinois who was exonerated last January by Governor George Ryan. Now Leroy Orange is now a testimonial of Hands Off Cain the international campaign for a UN moratorium on executions.
APRIL 16, 2003Burundi
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The Criminal Court of Appeal in Bujumbura, Burundi,...
The Criminal Court of Appeal in Bujumbura, Burundi, condemned to death the assassin of the former Burundi chief of general staff under the First Republic, Maj-Gen Thomas Ndabemeye
APRIL 16, 2003
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Christian Longo has been sentenced to death for the...
Christian Longo has been sentenced to death for the murders of his wife, MaryJane, and 3 young children
APRIL 16, 2003
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The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its...
The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its first ever condemnation of North Korea, expressing "deep concern" at "systematic" rights abuses in the reclusive Communist state
APRIL 16, 2003China
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Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were...
Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were given their final ruling on their death sentences and were executed on the same day
APRIL 16, 2003North Korea
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The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its...
The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its first ever condemnation of North Korea, expressing "deep concern" at "systematic" rights abuses in the reclusive Communist state