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- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI EXECUTED FOR HOMICIDE
saudi authorities executed a Saudi national for killing a compatriot by shooting him after running over him with his car.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005DEATH PENALTY
OHIO, USA. MAN INVOLVED IN $40 ROBBERY EXECUTED
the state of Ohio executed Herman Ashworth, a 32-year-old man who admitted killing another man in a $40 robbery and had waived most of his appeals, saying he deserved to die.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. AUTHORITIES POSTPONE EXECUTION OF TWO BROTHERS FOR MURDER
Indonesian authorities postponed the scheduled execution of two brothers on death row for a premeditated triple murder.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT UPHOLDS SARABJIT SINGH'S DEATH SENTENCE
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld a death sentence imposed on Sarabjit Singh, an alleged Indian spy, for a bombing that killed four people in 1990, court officials said.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: DEATH SENTENCE NO LONGER MANDATORY FOR DRUG SMUGGLERS
Saudi Arabia redefined its drug trafficking laws, giving discretionary powers to judges and allowing them to hand down jail sentences instead of awarding the death penalty, the Jeddah-based Saudi Gazette reported.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TWO PEOPLE KILLED FOR DEATHS OF JAPANESE TOURISTS
an intermediate court in the city of Xian, China, on orders from the Shaanxi Province Supreme People's Court, executed Hai Ting and Cao Xiude, two men convicted of killing three Japanese tourists during a robbery.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR PREMEDITATED KILLING
Saudi authorities executed a Saudi national for killing a man by running over him with his car.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2005PolandDEATH PENALTY
POLAND. EUROPEAN OFFICIALS WARN POLAND AGAINST INTRODUCING DEATH PENALTY
European officials said that Poland would be in clear breach of its international commitments if the winners of the parliamentary elections were to reintroduce the death penalty.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2005PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. 12 DEATH ROW CONVICTS GET 90-DAY REPRIEVE
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo granted 12 death row convicts a 90-day reprieve, rescheduling their date of execution by lethal injection from October to January 2006. In a memorandum to Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez and Bureau of Corrections Director
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabia executed two Saudi men convicted in separate cases of murder, the country’s Interior Ministry said.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. CONVICTED DRUG TRAFFICKER HANGED
an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in the northern city of Sari, in Iran’s Mazandaran province, the Kayhan daily reported.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. YOUNG MAN HANGED FOR RAPE
a young man was publicly hanged at a riverside in the Iranian town of Kashan, south of the capital, the country’s state-run news agency reported.