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- OCTOBER 29, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taipei Minister without Portfolio Hsu Chih-hsiung said...
Taipei Minister without Portfolio Hsu Chih-hsiung said that an anti-terrorism law approved by the country's Cabinet that included the death penalty did not contradict the government's goal of abolishing executions
- OCTOBER 29, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism law envisaging the death penalty...
An anti-terrorism law envisaging the death penalty was approved by the Taipei Cabinet
- OCTOBER 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Thanh Tuan, a 40 year old man who pretended to...
Pham Thanh Tuan, a 40 year old man who pretended to be a doctor of traditional medicine, was executed in southern Vietnam for fatally poisoning four people and robbing them
- OCTOBER 29, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Delhi High court, India, acquitted two people originally...
The Delhi High court, India, acquitted two people originally sentenced to death in the December 13, 2001, terrorist attack on Parliament, lecturer Sayed Abdul Rahman Geelani and Afsan Guru, a woman
- OCTOBER 29, 2003DEATH PENALTY
John Clayton Smith, 42, was put to death by injection...
John Clayton Smith, 42, was put to death by injection at the Potosi Correctional Center in the July 5, 1997 fatal stabbings of his former girlfriend, Brandie Kearns, 22, and her stepfather, Wayne Hoewing, 51
- OCTOBER 28, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Since independence in 1945, Indonesian courts had sentenced...
Since independence in 1945, Indonesian courts had sentenced a total of 70 people to death with 11 of them already executed, an Attorny General's Office (AGO) spokesman said
- OCTOBER 28, 2003KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
The Kuwaiti Court of Appeals court commuted to life...
The Kuwaiti Court of Appeals court commuted to life in prison the death sentence against Sami al-Mutairi, a 25 year old Kuwaiti who killed an American civilian and wounded another in a highway ambush in January 2003
- OCTOBER 28, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Huu Hau, 23, was sentenced to death in southern...
Nguyen Huu Hau, 23, was sentenced to death in southern Vietnam for killing a 16-year-old girl after she repeatedly spurned his advances
- OCTOBER 28, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Qineng, an official convicted in what was called...
Hu Qineng, an official convicted in what was called the biggest corruption case in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, was executed for embezzlement
- OCTOBER 28, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is an effective form of punishment...
The death penalty is an effective form of punishment and should not abolished, said one of Lebanon's leading magistrates, Ghassan Rabah
- OCTOBER 28, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's reformist parliament accused the hardline judiciary...
Iran's reformist parliament accused the hardline judiciary of a cover-up in the case of the Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died in July 2003 from a blow to the head while in custody
- OCTOBER 28, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
George Kelly, hanged in the UK for murder was the victim...
George Kelly, hanged in the UK for murder was the victim of a miscarriage of justice which must be "deeply regretted", the Court of Appeal said