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- MAY 25, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF TWO, ACQUITS TWO OTHERS
the High Court of Bangladesh, Dhaka, commuted the death penalties of Monir Hossain Liton and Abu Sayed, both in their early 20’s, into life imprisonment and acquitted teenagers Faisal Sharif Raju and Imran Hossain Sabuj who had previously been sentenced t
- MAY 25, 2005LaosDEATH PENALTY
LAOS. FIVE HANDED DEATH PENALTY FOR SMUGGLING AMPHETAMINES
five people were sentenced to death and four more handed life prison sentences in Laos after one of the country's biggest ever drug trafficking cases, the foreign ministry said.
- MAY 25, 2005DEATH PENALTY
in Tarrant County, Chelsea Lea Richardson, 21, was unanimously sentenced to death
in Tarrant County, Chelsea Lea Richardson, 21, was unanimously sentenced to death
- MAY 25, 2005DEATH PENALTY
a Baldwin County judge pulled a 36-year-old convicted...
a Baldwin County judge pulled a 36-year-old convicted murderer off death row when prosecutors withdrew their push for capital punishment because of complex legal issues that arose after the man was sentenced.
- MAY 24, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TRIBAL COUNCIL ORDERS EXECUTION OF TWO MEN
two men accused of murdering a taxi driver were executed by a firing squad on the orders of a tribal council in rural Pakistan, witnesses said, highlighting the rule of deep-rooted tribal customs.
- MAY 24, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a man named M. Mohsin was sentenced to death by a court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, for killing his uncle. Additional District and Sessions Judge Noor M Jahangir Sarker handed down the death sentence to Mohsin, 34, and fined him Tk 1,000.
- MAY 24, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO KILLED STEPSON, IN-LAWS
the Tokyo High Court upheld the death sentence for Tomoyuki Furusawa, a man convicted of murdering his 12-year-old stepson and the parents of his estranged wife in Yokohama in 2002.
- MAY 24, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. HUNAN COURT SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING, TRANSPORTATION
in its initial trial, the Loudi Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Li Muwang to death for drug transportation;
- MAY 23, 2005YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN. AMINA’S DEATH SENTENCE REVOKED
the Yemeni embassy in Rome announced that “by order of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the death sentence on Amina Ali Abulatif al Tuhaif has been revoked and a new trial granted in which she will have the opportunity to prove her innocence as established b
- MAY 23, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. BUSINESSMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING ASSOCIATES
the Lamongan district court in East Java, Indonesia, sentenced Nur Hasan to death for killing his three business associates.
- MAY 23, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. RESPONSE TO DEATH PENALTY BEING USED TO CONTROL VIOLENCE
it was reported that International human rights organisations had raised concern over the Iraqi prime ministers' recent announcement that the death penalty would be implemented as a way to control ongoing violence and insurgency in the country.
- MAY 23, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. RETRIAL SOUGHT IN CASE OF PRISONER EXECUTED IN 1947 MURDER CASE
the family of Takeo Nishi, a man executed in 1975 over a murder in Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture asked the Fukuoka High Court for a retrial of the case, saying he had been tortured into confessing, lawyers for the family said.