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- JANUARY 24, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BRIBERY
Xu Guojian, former head of the Organization Department of the Party's provincial committee in Jiangsu, was sentenced to death in China’s Fujian province for bribe taking.
- JANUARY 24, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE CONVICTS` EXECUTIONS PUT OFF FOR A MONTH
President General Pervez Musharraf issued orders to defer the executions of three convicts for a month.
- JANUARY 23, 2006DEATH PENALTY
UNITED STATES. US MILITARY ISSUES NEW EXECUTION REGULATIONS
the US Army has issued new regulations governing the death penalty, raising speculation that the military might be preparing for its first execution since 1961.
- JANUARY 23, 2006KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. DIPLOMATS TOLD TO SAVE MAID FROM EXECUTION IN KUWAIT
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered Philippine diplomats to do everything they could to save a Filipina teacher who was set to hang in Kuwait for killing her boss there.
- JANUARY 23, 2006TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN. DEATH ROW INMATE COMMITS SUICIDE, ‘WAITING FOR EXECUTION TOO PAINFUL’
a death row prisoner in Taiwan committed suicide due to being unable to bear the pain of waiting for the execution.
- JANUARY 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged in Isfahan, the Iran newspaper reported.
- JANUARY 23, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. COE WANTS RUSSIA TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis called on Russia to ratify a protocol banning the death penalty but admitted that Russia had never violated its death penalty moratorium introduced in 1996.
- JANUARY 23, 2006DEATH PENALTY
in Visalia, jurors returned death sentences for two brothers already convicted of the July 18...
in Visalia, jurors returned death sentences for two brothers already convicted of the July 18, 1995 Pato's Place bar murders in rural Tulare.
- JANUARY 23, 2006SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE. MAN TO HANG FOR MURDER AFTER LOSING APPEAL
Vijayakumar Veeriah, a 24 year old man convicted of stabbing a close friend to death in Bukit Batok, Singapore, was due to hang after the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction for murdering Suthagar Raja Ram Thomas, 24, at their rented flat in September 2
- JANUARY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. SISTERS PUBLISH LIST OF 9,400 IRANIANS 'MURDERED' BY THE REGIME
Ladan and Roya Boroumand, whose father, a pro-democracy opposition leader, was assassinated by an Iranian death squad while living in exile in Paris in 1991, unveiled the largest database of the victims murdered and executed by the theocratic regime since
- JANUARY 21, 2006BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. BULGARIA AGREES 4.4 BLN EURO FUND IN HIV CASE
Bulgaria agreed with Libya to set up a 4.4 billion euro ($5.3 billion) fund for families of children infected with HIV in Libya, a Libyan official said. The deal was likely to defuse a standoff over five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who convi
- JANUARY 20, 2006Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
SRI LANKA. MINISTER CLEARED, FIVE CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR ELECTION DAY KILLINGS
Sri Lanka's High Court cleared a former deputy defence minister and his two sons over the killing of 10 men but handed down death penalties to five soldiers who were involved.