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- JULY 1, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. COURTS BEGIN OPEN HEARINGS IN DEATH PENALTY CASES
China's high courts began open hearings for death penalty cases in a long-awaited move aimed at raising the quality of justice in capital punishment cases.
- JULY 1, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TEMPLE RAID
an Indian court sentenced three men to death for masterminding a militant attack on the Akshardham Hindu temple that killed 35 people in 2002, including the attackers.
- JUNE 30, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MURDER ACCUSED EXECUTED IN PUBLIC
a man who allegedly killed two people was executed under Taliban’s shariah system in a village near North Waziristan’s regional headquarters of Miramshah, Pakistan. Thirty-year-old Ihsanullah was brought blindfolded to the execution ground by heirs of the
- JUNE 30, 2006VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR NAM CAM'S RIGHT HAND MAN
the People’s Supreme Court of Appeal in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, confirmed the death sentence for Nguyen Van Tho, a close associate of crime boss Nam Cam who was executed in 2004 for murder and bribery.
- JUNE 30, 2006DEATH PENALTY
a Superior Court jury unanimously recommended that Ambrose Sykes...
a Superior Court jury unanimously recommended that Ambrose Sykes...
- JUNE 30, 2006DEATH PENALTY
Ricardo Gill got what he asked for: a death sentence.
Ricardo Gill got what he asked for: a death sentence.
- JUNE 30, 2006DEATH PENALTY
in Jefferson City, the state Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for Terrance Anderson.
in Jefferson City, the state Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for Terrance Anderson.
- JUNE 30, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Punjab and Haryana High Court, India...
the Punjab and Haryana High Court, India...
- JUNE 29, 2006DEATH PENALTY
GUANTANAMO. US TOP COURT DECLARES GUANTANAMO TRIBUNALS ILLEGAL
in a sharp rebuke of President George W. Bush's tactics in the war on terrorism, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unlawful the military tribunal system set up to try Guantanamo prisoners.
- JUNE 29, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 4 MEN HANGED FOR GANG RAPE OF CHRISTIAN WOMAN
Shehzad Ahmad, 29, Muhammad Ashraf, 34, Mubarik Ali, 28, and Umer Hayat, 32, were hanged in Pakistan for gang-raping a teenaged Christian girl at gunpoint in the central city of Faisalabad on November 7, 1999.
- JUNE 29, 2006MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. PARLIAMENT EXLUDES DEATH PENALTY FROM CONSTITUTION
Moldova's parliament unanimously supported the definitive exclusion from the country's Constitution of Paragraph 3 of Article 24 allowing the use of death penalty in exceptional cases.
- JUNE 29, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. 22 EXECUTIONS AND 260 DEATH SENTENCES IN TWO YEARS
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maliki said that courts in the country had sentenced 260 people to death in the past two years.