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- JANUARY 31, 2007TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER APPROVED
after many appeals, the Supreme Court of Taiwan this month approved the High Court's death sentence for Wang Hsiu-fang, a taxi driver convicted of murdering a woman and her three year old daughter in 1996
- JANUARY 30, 2007FranceDEATH PENALTY
FRANCE. DEATH PENALTY SOON REMOVED FROM CONSITUTION
The French National Assembly unanimously decided to remove the death penalty from the French Consitution. ‘Noone can be sentenced to death,’ states the only article of the Consitutional Law Bill that modifies the VIII title of the Fundamental Charter.
- JANUARY 30, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER TOBACCO OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR EMBEZZLEMENT IN EAST CHINA
a provincial court upheld the death sentence of a tobacco official in east China's Fulian Province.
- JANUARY 30, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO REPRIEVED DEATH FOR SWINDLING NEARLY 12 MILLION YUAN IN EAST CHINA
a fraudster was sentenced to death with two years' reprieve, for swindling millions of yuan from over 300 people, according to a spokesman with the Nanchang People's Intermediate Court in east China's Jiangxi Province.
- JANUARY 30, 2007Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
5 SENTECED TO DEATH IN QATAR
five Sri Lankan men were sentenced to death, including one in absentia, as they were found guilty of killing a compatriot in Doha last February.
- JANUARY 30, 2007MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA FEDERAL COURT REINSTATES DRUG TRAFFICKER’S DEATH SENTENCE
the Malaysian Federal Court reinstated the High Court's decision in imposing the death sentence on a construction worker, Saari Jusoh, who was found guilty for trafficking 12 years ago.
- JANUARY 30, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
MAN RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR DOUBLE MURDER
according to the Jordan Times, the Criminal Court sentenced a 38-year-old man to death for the premeditated murder of his ex-wife and a man in Amman in 2004.
- JANUARY 30, 2007DEATH PENALTY
Christopher Swift, 31, was executed...
Christopher Swift, 31, was executed...
- JANUARY 29, 2007VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM SENTENCES 8 DRUG TRAFFICKERS, PRODUCERS TO DEATH
a Vietnamese court handed down eight death sentences and 13 life imprisonment on local people on drugs charges. The People's Court of northern Son La province passed the death sentences on Trinh Nguyen
- JANUARY 29, 2007ItalyDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY. ITALY APPEALS TO AU TO HELP IMPLEMENT MORATORIUM
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi appealed to African leaders to help Italy in its attempt to have capital punishment suspended throghout the world. "We have to be pro life and against death in the same way that we are against injustice and suffering,"
- JANUARY 29, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES WOMAN FOR MURDER
a Saudi Ministry statement published by the official news agency SPA stated a Saudi woman, identified as Hala bint Marzouk al-Outaibi, was executed for murder.
- JANUARY 29, 2007BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. GADDAFI'S SON SAYS BULGARIAN NURSES TO BE SPARED EXECUTION
Libya will not execute five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death last month, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said in a newspaper interview, calling the verdicts unfair.