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- MAY 26, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MILK EXTORTION CASE
Qian Junbo was sentenced to death by the Xiangfan Intermediate Court in China’s Hubei province for poisoning milk products from the Inner Mongolian-based Mengniu Group in stores in Changsha and Wuhan cities early in 2004 and attempting to extort 200,000 y
- MAY 26, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MURDER CONVICT EXECUTED IN KOTLAKHPAT JAIL
Tajamal Abbas, 24, resident of Sheikhupura, Pakistan, was executed for murder at Kotlakhpat Jail at 4:30am in the presence of the victim’s father and uncle.
- MAY 26, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TOP PENALTY FOR GAYS DEATH BY STONING SAYS SAUDI JUDGE
Shaykh Fu'ad al-Majid, president of the general court in Al-Qatif, Saudi Arabia, explained that the religious ruling awaiting those present at a ‘party’ on 19 May, in which 13 homosexuals were present, would be stoning to death if they were married and fo
- MAY 26, 2005South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH AFRICA. COURT SLAMS STATE'S DEATH-ROW DELAYS
the Human Rights Commission of South Africa commended the May 25 Constitutional Court judgment that ordered the government to report to the court by August 15 on what it had done to set aside the death sentences of the 62 people still on death row.
- MAY 26, 2005DEATH PENALTY
Anne Arundel County Judge Pamela L. North granted death row inmate...
Anne Arundel County Judge Pamela L. North granted death row inmate Lawrence Michael Borchardt Sr. a new sentencing hearing, ruling that an attorney who defended the convicted killer at a capital sentencing hearing in 2000 provided ineffective counsel.
- MAY 26, 2005DEATH PENALTY
Jerry Chambers, convicted of murdering 3-year-old Porchia Bennett...
Jerry Chambers, convicted of murdering 3-year-old Porchia Bennett, should be executed for the 2003 crime, a jury unanimously decided today.
- MAY 26, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. GUANGDONG COURT SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING
it was reported that recently, in its initial trial, the Maoming Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Yang Cuiyun, a 40 year old female from Yunnan, and Chen Luzong, from Maoming, to death for drug trafficking.
- MAY 25, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED
a young man was hanged in public in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, accused of armed robbery and disturbing the peace.
- MAY 25, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. FORMER ARMY CAPTAIN CONDEMNED TO DEATH
Tahassin Ali Mutar Janabi, an Iraqi army captain who served under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, was sentenced to death.
- MAY 25, 2005South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH AFRICA. DEATH ROW INMATES WIN FRESH SENTENCES
South Africa's Constitutional Court ruled that the country's last death row inmates be given new sentences in line with its post-apartheid constitution that outlaws capital punishment.
- MAY 25, 2005DEATH PENALTY
INDIANA, USA. GREGORY JOHNSON, MAN WHO WANTED TO DONATE LIVER, EXECUTED
Indiana executed Gregory Johnson, a convicted murderer who had sought a reprieve so he could donate part of his liver to an ailing sister.
- MAY 25, 2005BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
EU. ENVOY PRESSES LIBYA OVER DEATH ROW NURSES
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Union's external relations chief, met Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to press for the release of five nurses from Bulgaria who were facing execution for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.