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- MAY 19, 2006Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
PAPUA NEW GUINEA. DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED FOR THREE CONVICTED OF MURDER
the Waigani Supreme Court, Papua New Guinea, commuted into life imprisonment the penalties of three men from the country’s West New Britain province.
- MAY 18, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. SIX PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER
a court in Bogra, Bangladesh, sentenced six men to death for murdering a teenage girl after raping her at Prannathpur village in Adamdighi.
- MAY 18, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
BRITAIN. BLAIR ASKS MUSHARRAF TO STOP BRITON BEING HANGED
Britain asked Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf to stop the hanging of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man convicted of shooting dead a taxi driver 18 years ago.
- MAY 18, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ELECTION MURDERS
Hu Jialong, Chen Riwen and Chen Dedao were sentenced to death by the Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court, China, after convicting them of killing a candidate supporter in a local election.
- MAY 18, 2006SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA. MAN EXECUTED IN BELEDWEN FOR MURDER
Abdi kadir Shuriye was executed in Beledwen, central Somalia, after being convicted a few days previously of killing Ahmed Nur whilst attempting to steal his mobile phone.
- MAY 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF TERROR OUTFIT ACTIVISTS
the Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of three Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activists for the murder of Syed Zafar Hussain, a director of laboratories of the ministry of defence, on July 30, 2001.
- MAY 18, 2006DEATH PENALTY
democrats played the role of executioner...
democrats played the role of executioner, killing a bill that sought to protect doctors from dealing with the death penalty. Sen. Sam Aanestad, R-Grass Valley, had introduced Senate Bill 1808 to shield doctors from having their licenses suspended or remov
- MAY 18, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. FILIPINA SAVED FROM BEHEADING
Sarah Dematera, a Filipina convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia, has been saved from execution through the intercession of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and the victim's family has accepted part of a total of 28 million pesos (417,000 EU) in blood mon
- MAY 18, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. VICTIMS DEMAND HARSH SENTENCE AGAINST BESLAN HOSTAGE-TAKER
relatives of those killed in the Beslan school massacre called for a harsh sentence -- even death -- as the reading out of a guilty verdict against the sole-surviving hostage-taker entered its third day.
- MAY 17, 2006DEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. HERRON EXECUTED FOR MURDERS
Jermaine Herron, a man convicted in the shooting deaths of a woman and her son in 1997 was executed, hours after a court rejected his appeal that the drugs used in lethal injections cause excessive pain.
- MAY 17, 2006PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. HOUSE STARTS DEBATES ON BILL ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY
the House Representatives began floor debates on the abolition of the death penalty in the country as contained in a bill certified as urgent by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- MAY 17, 2006DEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DOORMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING
the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced nightclub bouncer Liu Zhenli to death for manslaughter for ordering an attack that killed one man.