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- DECEMBER 14, 2005DEATH PENALTY
MISSISSIPPI, USA. JOHN NIXON, 77, EXECUTED
John B. Nixon Sr., a 77-year-old convicted hitman, was executed becoming the oldest person in the nation put to death since capital punishment resumed in the US in 1977.
- DECEMBER 14, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. EX-SECURITIES CEO GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR GRAFT
Yang Yanming, formerly general manager of a Beijing trading business department with China Yinhe Securities Co. Ltd., was sentenced to death for graft and embezzling public funds.
- DECEMBER 14, 2005AustriaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRIA. SCHWARZENEGGER SHUNNED IN AUSTRIA FOLLOWING EXECUTION
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's refusal to grant former gang leader Stanley 'Tookie' Williams clemency sparked outrage in his native Austria.
- DECEMBER 14, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Ali Darman Agustri
Ali Darman Agustri
- DECEMBER 14, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
Kyrgyz Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir Uulu asked President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Kyrgyz Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir Uulu asked President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
- DECEMBER 13, 2005DEATH PENALTY
CALIFORNIA, USA. STANLEY WILLIAMS, GANGLEADER TURNED PEACE MAKER, EXECUTED
California prison officials executed Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, the ex-leader of the Crips convicted of killing four people in 1979, early in the morning a day after top courts and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected final appeals to spare his life.
- DECEMBER 13, 2005ItalyDEATH PENALTY
ITALY. ‘WILLIAMS EXECUTION IS RUTHLESS JUSTICE’, D’ELIA
Stanley Williams was executed after being denied clemency by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- DECEMBER 13, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. EIGHT CHILD OFFENDERS EXECUTED THIS YEAR
“Iran has executed at least eight juvenile offenders so far this year, two of whom were still under 18 at the time they were executed”, Amnesty International said in a statement.
- DECEMBER 13, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO YOUTHS SENTENCED TO EXECUTION
Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld sentences for two young men to be hanged in the Iranian capital Tehran, a state-run daily reported.
- DECEMBER 13, 2005DEATH PENALTY
CALIFORNIA. OUTCRY AFTER WILLIAMS' DEATH GLITCHES SLOW BUT DON'T STOP EXECUTION
at 12:01 a.m., having exhausted all appeals, Stanley Tookie Williams shuffled into San Quentin's death chamber, shackled at the wrists and waist and escorted by four guards.
- DECEMBER 13, 2005DEATH PENALTY
Stanley Tookie Williams was executed by lethal injection
Stanley Tookie Williams was executed by lethal injection
- DECEMBER 13, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. 23 YEAR OLD SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF NIECE
Nigel Fernandez, 23, was sentenced to death and his twin brother, Truver Fernandez, given life imprisonment by a sessions court in Thiruvananthapuram, India, after being found guilty of murdering their 17-year-old niece.