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NO to the Death Penalty
International Campaign
       Comunità di Sant'Egidio

December 2002

31/12/02  North Carolina/USA

Death Row Inmate Granted New Trial; Critical Evidence Withheld.    (EN)

31/12/02  China

11 executions.     (IT-FR)

30/12/02  Yemen

Maj. Saeed al-Areef and Yehya al-Sadiq were executed by a firing squad.     (EN)

30/12/02  USA

DPIC's 2002 Year End Report Traces Year of Change in Capital Punishment.     (EN)

29/12/02  Illinois/USA

Ryan Pardons Two Men sentenced to death.    (EN)

29/12/02  Vietnam

2 counterfeiters, Tran Hoai Nam (27) and Nguyen Van Phi (28), were executed by firing squad.     (FR)

29/12/02  USA

Clemency Often Used in the Past to Remedy      (EN)

28/12/02  Iran

Iran stops stoning of women adulterers and could abolish this kind of executions.   (IT-EN)

28/12/02  Italia/Tibet

After the intervention of the EU, the Italian Parliament too intervenes in favour of the two Tibetans sentenced to death.   (EN)

28/12/02  Illinois/USA

'Dead men' walk for cause of justice.   (EN)

27/12/02  India

Kashmir anger over death sentences.   (EN)

27/12/02  USA

Kerry traces his shift on the death penalty.   (EN)

26/12/02  Italy

The Christmas cover of the Catholic Magazine Famiglia Cristiana regards Amina.   (IT)

26/12/02  Maryland/USA

Death-penalty protest focuses on new Gov. Ehrlich.   (EN)

26/12/02  Texas/USA

James Collier, 55, was executed.   (IT)

25/12/02  Japan

Seijiro Yamano could be executed bifore the end of this year.
  Urgent Appeal.    (IT-EN)

25/12/02  Texas/USA

Texas Faulted in Death Row Report.   (EN)

24/12/02  Italy-Nigeria

Amina, a penalty without a crime.   (IT)

24/12/02  Oklahoma/USA

Ernest Marvin Carter, 36, was executed.   (IT-EN)

24/12/02  USA

Former Federal Chief Judge Calls Death Penalty "Legalized Murder".    (EN)

23/12/02  Japan

Masumi Hayashi, the so-called "21st century witch" very probably will be execute.    (EN)

22/12/02  Illinois/USA

Murder Victims' Families Ask Gov. Ryan to Grant Clemency Requests.    (EN)

21/12/02  Congo

Amnesty International: 115 people face imminent execution.    (EN-FR)

21/12/02  USA

Less death sentences and less Death Row Population.    (IT-EN)

20/12/02  Jamaica

Amnesty International criticised the desire to bring back the gallows.    (EN)

20/12/02  Angola/Nigeria

Silent rally of women to save Amina.    (EN)

19/12/02  Illinois/USA

Death penalty opponents, exonerated inmates gather in Chicago.    (EN)

19/12/02  Zambia

Child Killer to Hang.    (EN)

19/12/02  Texas/USA

Press conference to mark 20 years of lethal injection executions.    (EN)

18/12/02  Congo

Several NGOs appeal to President against the death penalty.    (FR)

18/12/02  Mississipi/USA

Jessie Derrell Williams, 51, was executed.    (EN)

17/12/02  Italy

Executions? It isn't worth. A performance against the death penalty, in Florence.    (IT)

17/12/02  Singapore

Anthony Ler, 35, was executed.An Australian man could face the imminent execution.    (EN)

17/12/02  Russia/Council of Europe

Council of Europe invites Russia to abolish death penalty by law.    (IT)

16/12/02  Italy

President Conso expresses his concern because a Syrian man was sent to Syria, in spite of his death sentence.    (IT)

16/12/02  Alabama - Oklahoma/USA

Anthony Johnson (46) and Jay Wesley Neill (37) were executed.    (IT-EN)

16/12/02  Cina

Two Tibetans sentenced to death.    (EN)

15/12/02  USA

The Augustinians join the Community of Sant'Egidio in the research of funds for the legal counsel of Dominique Green.    (EN)

15/12/02  Oklahona/USA

Jerry Lynn McCracken, 35, wsa executed.    (IT-EN)

14/12/02  Italy

Liliana Cavani and Mario Marazziti will present the book of Idanna Pucci"The Lady of Sing Sing. NO to the Death Penalty".    (IT)

14/12/02  Florida/USA

Linroy Bottosom, 63, mentally retarded, was executed.    (IT-EN)

14/12/02  California/USA

A Third Reprieve. One of most notorious death-row inmates wants to be spared again.    (EN)

12/12/02  Iran

Man hanged in the square.    (IT)

12/12/02  Texas/USA

Study: Legal aid deficient in appeals. Report says judges fail in appointments of adequate lawyers in death penalty cases.    (EN)

12/12/02  Zimbabue

Man Gets Death Penalty.   (EN)

11/12/02  Texas/USA      Urgent Appeal

Granville Riddle -  USA - Texas - 33 years old - Sentenced to death.   (EN)

11/12/02  Ucraina

Parliament approves European Protocol on human rights and death penalty.   (IT)

11/12/02  Jordan

Yasser Mohammed Abu Shinar, 37, Palestinian, was hanged.   (EN)

10/12/02  USA

Community of Sant'Egidio -  Interview with Peter Neufeld, founder of Innocence Project. Several inmates were exonerated thanks to his DNA tests.   (IT-EN)

10/12/02  North Carolina/USA

Ernest Basden, 49 anni, � stato messo a morte.   (IT-EN)

10/12/02  Illinois/USA

21 Retired Judges Endorse Broad Use of Clemency Power in Capital Cases.   (IT-EN)

09/12/02  Uzbekistan

Human Rights Watch launches an appeal to save Iskandar Khudoiberganov.   (EN)

09/12/02  Texas/USA 

Leonard Rojas, 52, was executed.   (IT-EN)

08/12/02  USA 

Supreme Court refuses to consider juvenile death row case.   (EN)

07/12/02  Jamaica 

Jamaican prime minister calls for resuming death penalty as part of anti-crime plan.   (IT-EN)

07/12/02  USA 

Executions End All Chance for Change.   (EN)

06/12/02  Iran 

Lawyer Appeals Iran Dissident's Death Sentence   (IT-EN)

06/12/02  Florida/USA 

Execution halted for DNA testing. Bush rapped on stay of death.   (IT-EN)

05/12/02  USA 

The death penalty is too flawed to fix - get rid of it (Amnesty International).   (EN)

04/12/02  Florida/USA 

"The death penalty is useless". Her father was murdered and she too was stabbed. (Interview with Suezann Bosler)  (EN)

03/12/02  Iran/USA 

United States Calls Iran Death Sentence Outrageous.   (EN)

03/12/02  Nevada/USA 

Commutation Granted to a Mentally retarded man on death row.   (EN)

02/12/02  The Cities for Life 

1st  World Day against the Death Penalty -  The Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty - Press Review

02/12/02  Giappone 

Japan moves towards a debate on ending the death penalty.   (EN)

02/12/02  Tennesee/USA 

Federal appeals court ordered to review death sentence and to consider DNA evidence.   (EN)