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- AUGUST 5, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FOUR DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
four people were sentenced to death by a court in Lohardaga, India, for killing eight members of a family last year after a feud over land. District and Sessions Judge Goutam Kumar Choudhury pronounced the judgement against Mofil Khan, Mubark Khan, Wakil
- AUGUST 5, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO BALUCHI ACTIVISTS EXECUTED IN IRAN
Yaghub Mehrnahad, a 28 year old Baluchi journalist, human rights and cultural activist, has been hanged in a prison in Zahedan, Iran, Etemad Melli newspaper reported without saying when the execution took place.
- AUGUST 5, 2008SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: DARFUR ‘REBELS’ APPEAL DEATH PENALTIES
in Sudan, eight Darfur ‘rebels’ facing death penalties for terrorists attacks on Khartoum appealed against their convictions, a lawyer said.
- AUGUST 5, 2008United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UK FOREIGN OFFICE MAKES DEATH PENALTY PLEA TO ANTIGUA
the UK Foreign Office is seeking assurance that the killer of a British honeymoon couple in Antigua will not face the death penalty as UK police help Antiguan officers.
- AUGUST 5, 2008DEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas executed José E. Medellín
USA - Texas executed José E. Medellín
- AUGUST 5, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN SUSPENDS DEATH BY STONING
Iran suspended the punishment of death by stoning, state media announced.
- AUGUST 4, 2008NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
29 NIGERIANS ESCAPE DEATH SENTENCE IN THAILAND, AFGHANISTAN
twenty-nine Nigerians, condemned to death in Thailand and Afghanistan for drug-related offences, had their sentences commuted to prison terms.
- AUGUST 4, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: YOUTH GETS DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR GIRL
the Madurai District Court in India handed the death sentence to a 20 year old youth, charged with the rape and murder of a minor.
- AUGUST 4, 2008MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
TWO NIGERIANS TO HANG IN MALAYSIA FOR MURDER
the appeal by two Nigerians against the death sentences was dismissed by the Malaysian Federal Court.
- AUGUST 3, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
THREE IRANIAN MEN, ONE WOMAN, TO BE EXECUTED FOR TERRORISM
- AUGUST 2, 2008TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
TANZANIA: APPEAL COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR IRINGA MAN
Justices Damian Lubuva, Mbarouk Mbarouk...
- AUGUST 1, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
AHRC URGES PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT TO RATIFY CABINET DECISION OF COMMUTING DEATH SENTENCE
the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission urged the Pakistani government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani to immediately ratify the decision of the cabinet to commute death sentences in to life imprisonment so as to make it a law.