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- MAY 16, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Honduras asked Governor Rick Perry to spare the lives...
Honduras asked Governor Rick Perry to spare the lives of two of its citizens on Texas' death row, saying its consulate wasn't properly notified about the charges the men were facing
- MAY 16, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf called on religious...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf called on religious scholars to re-examine strict Islamic laws which discriminate against women and non-Muslims
- MAY 15, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian reformist academic Hashem Aghajari, whose death...
Iranian reformist academic Hashem Aghajari, whose death sentence for blasphemy in 2002 led to mass protests, is unlikely to be executed although a provincial court has upheld the sentence, his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said
- MAY 15, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the head of the justice department to re-examine "as quickly as possible" the file on dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari, condemned to death for blasphemy, the student news agency ISNA said
- MAY 15, 2004Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar's junta dropped death sentences against nine...
Myanmar's junta dropped death sentences against nine men accused of high treason, including a journalist and three men charged over contacts with the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
- MAY 14, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision...
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision by the governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry commuting the death sentence of Mexican citizen Osvaldo Torres who had been scheduled to die next on May 18 for the murders of a man and woman during a burglary
- MAY 14, 2004KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
It was reported that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev wanted the death penalty to be fully abolished in Kazakhstan
- MAY 14, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision...
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision by the governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry commuting the death sentence of Mexican citizen Osvaldo Torres who had been scheduled to die next on May 18 for the murders of a man and woman during a burglary
- MAY 14, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari's death sentence...
Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari's death sentence for blasphemy will most probably be quashed by the supreme court, the student news agency ISNA said, quoting the head of the judiciary in western Hamadan province, Zekrollah Ahmadi
- MAY 14, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Baoji Intermediate People's Court in Shaanxi Province,...
The Baoji Intermediate People's Court in Shaanxi Province, China, sentenced Zhao Shouyi and Wang Rangke to death; Chen Baoping to 15 years imprisonment; and Zhang Haixue to 10 years imprisonment for murder, the Xibu Fazhi Bao newspaper reported
- MAY 13, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Gov. Brad Henry commuted the death sentence of Osbaldo...
Gov. Brad Henry commuted the death sentence of Osbaldo Torres to life without parole. Henry's decision came shortly after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals voted 3-2 to give Osbaldo Torres' an indefinite stay of execution and grant his request for a
- MAY 13, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran...
Three Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran and the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iranian dailies reported