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- DECEMBER 10, 2003DominicaDEATH PENALTY
So far this year, nearly 200 people had died at the...
So far this year, nearly 200 people had died at the hands of the Dominican police in extra-judicial executions, the National Human Rights Commission said
- DECEMBER 10, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saddam Hussein will be tried in absentia by the Iraqi...
Saddam Hussein will be tried in absentia by the Iraqi war crimes tribunal formally established in Baghdad, and could face the death penalty if found guilty of crimes against humanity, the Iraqi Governing Council said
- DECEMBER 10, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man in southern China's Guangxi province was sentenced...
A man in southern China's Guangxi province was sentenced to death for killing two people and injuring 10 others in a spate of rat-poisoning incidents
- DECEMBER 10, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A Philippine court sentenced six men to death for kidnapping...
A Philippine court sentenced six men to death for kidnapping two ethnic Chinese sisters and their driver, just five days after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ended a moratorium on capital punishment
- DECEMBER 10, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranian prisoners convicted of murder were hanged...
Three Iranian prisoners convicted of murder were hanged in a jail in Tehran, one of whom killed and dissected his brother and niece, the Entekhab daily reported
- DECEMBER 10, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon's pardoning commission refused to commute the...
Lebanon's pardoning commission refused to commute the death penalty for 31 convicts, who risk being hanged if President Emile Lahoud does not excuse them
- DECEMBER 10, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ignoring appeals from human rights groups, Vietnam...
Ignoring appeals from human rights groups, Vietnam sentenced at least 100 people to death up to December 8 and the country's get-tough-on-crime policy showed no signs of letting up
- DECEMBER 10, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Local human rights advocates in Taiwan called on the...
Local human rights advocates in Taiwan called on the government to abolish capital punishment as the world marked Human Rights Day
- DECEMBER 9, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
In a press statement, Davao Archbishop and President...
In a press statement, Davao Archbishop and President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines President Fernando R
- DECEMBER 9, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Speedy Trial Court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced...
The Speedy Trial Court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced five people to death, including four Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, and nine others to life imprisonment for the abduction and murder Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Nurul Islam
- DECEMBER 9, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Today in Delaware County when the District Attorney's...
Today in Delaware County when the District Attorney's office announced that it is dropping charges against Yarris for the 1981 rape and murder of Linda Mae Craig
- DECEMBER 9, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ngo Minh, 33, and Cao Ton, 45, were sentenced to death...
Ngo Minh, 33, and Cao Ton, 45, were sentenced to death in Vietnam after being found guilty by a court in the central province of Khanh Hoa of trafficking more than 32