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- AUGUST 9, 2005DEATH PENALTY
Judge Dennis Helmick of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court ruled that...
Judge Dennis Helmick of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court ruled that...
- AUGUST 9, 2005DEATH PENALTY
for a 2nd time, a jury chose the death penalty for Len Davis...
for a 2nd time, a jury chose the death penalty for Len Davis...
- AUGUST 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING, EXECUTED AFTER PASSING OF SENTENCE
in its final trial, the Foshan City Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province, China, upheld the original verdict sentencing Guo Jizong, Zhang Fajian and Peng Guowei to death and Li Shaoze and Wang Jiazhang to life imprisonment for drug traffickin
- AUGUST 8, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
three people were sentenced to death, one in absentia, by a court in Satkhira, Bangladesh, for killing a UP member at Baikari village, Sadar district.
- AUGUST 8, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR TRAFFICKING CHILDREN TO SINGAPORE
Ke Pangjie, a man convicted of running a child trafficking ring that sold 44 children to Singapore over a five-year period, was sentenced in China's southeastern city of Quanzhou, with partners Wu Wenbin and Sheng Zhenzhong getting life imprisonment and 1
- AUGUST 8, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. TWO YOUNG MEN SENT TO THE GALLOWS
the district court of Munshinganj, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Monir Hossain, 26, for the murder of his elder brother in Nayagaon, Sadar, on August 1, 2005.
- AUGUST 8, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. DUMA LIKELY TO PASS BILL ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY
the State Duma planned to pass a bill ratifying the Council of Europe's Protocol No.6 concerning abolition of the death penalty, Duma Legislation Committee Chairman Pavel Krasheninnikov said.
- AUGUST 8, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR STRANGLING COMPATRIOT
Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man who had been found guilty of murdering another man by strangling him, the country’s Interior Ministry said.
- AUGUST 8, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. KASHMIR SHUTS DOWN TO DEMAND LIFTING OF DEATH SENTENCE
a one-day strike seeking the lifting of a death sentence on Mohammed Afzal, a man convicted over a deadly 2001 raid on India's parliament, paralysed much of Indian Kashmir, residents said. Most schools, shops, post offices and banks remained closed in the
- AUGUST 8, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING
in its initial trial, the Haikou City Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province, China, sentenced Wang Chunliang, Zhou Bing, Huang Bin, LI Haichun and Wu Xiaobo to death for trafficking in more than six kg of narcotics.
- AUGUST 8, 2005DEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. MEXICANS COMPLAIN OF ABUSES ON TEXAS DEATH ROW
several Mexican inmates on death row on the penitentiary in Texas, known as the Polunsky Unit, said their isolation for 23 hours a day in a small cell amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
- AUGUST 8, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran’s Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran
Iran’s Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran