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- OCTOBER 8, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Cassation in Saudi Arabia dropped the...
The Court of Cassation in Saudi Arabia dropped the death sentence for three men accused of taking part in a series of armed robberies targeting a number of local Saudi banks and replaced it with imprisonment, but upheld the death sentence for a fourth sus
- OCTOBER 8, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council...
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided that the PACE Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee would draw up a special report on the case of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya on AIDS infection charg
- OCTOBER 8, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine Supreme Court reaffirmed the death sentence...
The Philippine Supreme Court reaffirmed the death sentence on Gerry H
- OCTOBER 8, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council...
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided that the PACE Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee would draw up a special report on the case of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya on AIDS infection charg
- OCTOBER 8, 2004DEATH PENALTY
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council...
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided that the PACE Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee would draw up a special report on the case of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya on AIDS infection charg
- OCTOBER 8, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Sammy Crystal Perkins was executed today at Central...
Sammy Crystal Perkins was executed today at Central Prison in Raleigh, Perkins was convicted in 1993 of raping and smothering Jo Jo Moore to death in her grandmother's Hopkins Drive home
- OCTOBER 7, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A fast track court in Godhra in the Indian state of...
A fast track court in Godhra in the Indian state of Gujarat, sentenced to death Ratansinh alias Anupsinh Chauhan after convicting him of raping and murdering a six year old girl on August 16, 2003
- OCTOBER 7, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Sohel and Raju Roy were sentenced to death by a Speedy...
Sohel and Raju Roy were sentenced to death by a Speedy Trial Tribunal and two others were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of killing Saiful Islam in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, on September 5, 2003
- OCTOBER 7, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations started its...
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations started its annual human rights meeting in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, focusing mainly on the issue of capital punishment
- OCTOBER 7, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Delhi, India, sentenced a 59-year-old man...
A court in Delhi, India, sentenced a 59-year-old man to death and his two young sons to life imprisonment in a triple murder case at Saket in South Delhi in 1998
- OCTOBER 7, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
There were no defined lines when it came to sentencing...
There were no defined lines when it came to sentencing a person to capital punishment or life imprisonment, and the decision was largely up to the judge to make, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) said, adding that it could not say for certai
- OCTOBER 6, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court sentenced two people to death and another...
A Chinese court sentenced two people to death and another to life in jail after they were convicted of smuggling the pelts of nearly 1,400 endangered animals into Tibet