Sant'Egidio Newsletter

Abolitions, commutations, moratoria, ...
06/07/02 - Pakistan - Zafran Bibi, who was sentenced to death by stoning, acquitted by Court. (IT-EN-FR) 06/04/02 - Nigeria - Amina Lawal is free until 2004. On July 8th the new sentence. (IT-EN-ES) 06/04/02 - Texas/USA - C. V. Burdine, Whose Lawyer Slept at Trial, Gets New Trial. (IT-EN)
Other issues
06/06/02 - Uganda - Fr. Agostani: ï¿½My challenge: to abolish the death penalty in Uganda.ï¿½ (IT) 06/03/02 - China - Chen Zhiqing, treasury official of the Central Bank, was executed for embezzling money. (IT-EN) 06/03/02 - Maryland/USA - ï¿½The lotteryï¿½ of the death penalty. The debate. (EN) 06/02/02 - Turkey - Powerful military willing to accept abolition of death penalty, if Ocalan is never freed. (EN) 06/02/02 - Texas/USA - Stanley Baker, 35, was executed. (IT) 06/01/02 - Japan - Death Penalty Campaigners Target Japan during the World Football Championship. (IT-EN-FR) 05/31/02 - Italy - Death penalty. The unfair row of justice (V. Andreoli). (IT) 05/31/02 - Texas/USA - Many newspapers in the world on the execution of Napoleon Beazley. (IT-EN) 05/30/02 - Russia - Pravda: Russians on the issue of the death penalty. (EN) 05/30/02 - Michigan/USAï¿½ - Death-penalty case defense cost $730,000. (EN) 05/29/02 - European Uinion - Europe, one currency and one common root: to reject racism and death penalty, President Prodi said. (IT) 05/29/02 - Texas/USA - Napoleon Beazley was executed for a murder committed at 17. (IT-EN) 05/29/02 - Nigeria - The appeal for Amina Lawal will be examined on June 3rd. (IT) 05/29/02 - Illinois/USA - Clemency push for all 160 on Death Row. The opinion of Gov. Ryan. (EN) 05/29/02 - Maryland/USA - Death penalty issue No. 1. (EN) 05/28/02 - Texas/USA - Interview with Napoleon Beazley, whose esecution is scheduled in a few hours. (EN) 05/28/02 - USA - 230 in House back bill to reform death penalty. (EN) 05/28/02 - Maryland/USA - Abolitionists find a new momentum, also with the support of Jesse Jackson. (EN) 05/28/02 - Pakistan - The case of Zafran Bibi, sentenced to death for adultery, on the New York Times. (EN) 05/28/02 - ONU - UN children's forum concludes after bitter debate. (IT-EN) 05/27/02 - Mali - The government of Maliï¿½ approved a draft law suspending the application of the death penalty for 2 years (Misna). (EN) 05/27/02 - Maryland/USA - Eliminating Questions of Life or Death (the Washington Post) (EN) 05/26/02 - USA - The first page of New York Times reports the case of Richard Rossi, sentenced to death in Arizona by a judge who uses drug.ï¿½ (IT-EN) 05/26/02 - Italy - The catalog of the executioner : the statistics of the death penalty in the world. (il sole 24 ore). (IT) 05/26/02 - Vietnam - Chen Chi Tien, 48, a Taiwan man, was executed for drug-production. (EN) 05/26/02 - Hungary - Prime minister says Hungary should consider reinstatement of death penalty. (EN) 05/25/02 - USA - U.S. Senators Call for Moratorium on Executions.ï¿½(EN) 05/25/02 - Iran - Six men were hanged in one day.ï¿½(IT-EN) 05/25/02 - Georgia/USA - Judge Notes Expensive Bottom Line in Capital Cases.ï¿½(EN) 05/25/02 - Vatican - H.E. Archbishop Francesco Monterisi, Secretary of the Congregation for the Bishops signed the appeal for the Wordl moratorium of the death penalty.