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

December 2003

30/12/03  Japan

Tomizo Ishida, 82 years old, has already spent 29 years on death row. (IT)

27/12/03  Lebanon

Amnesty International urged Lebanon's president to commute 27 death sentences.  (EN)

27/12/03  Pennsylvania/USA

Nicholas James Yarris � stato riconosciuto innocente e liberato dal braccio della morte.  (EN)

26/12/03  Philippine

Philippine Episcopate Opposes Lifting of Death-Penalty Ban.   (EN-IT)

26/12/03  USA

The troubles of Supreme Court about the lethal injection.   (IT)

24/12/03  North Carolina/USA

Man freed from death row because of retardation.   (EN)

24/12/03  USA

Former President and Nobel Prize winner urges US Govt. to ratify the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which forbids the execution of juvenile offenders.   (EN)

22/12/03  Kazakhstan

Moratorium of executions by decree.   (EN)

22/12/03  Cina

China separatist 'executed'.   (EN)

21/12/03  USA

"I Don't Want Another Kid to Die" Features Murder Victims' Family Members Who Oppose Execution of Lee Malvo and Juvenile Offenders.   (EN)

21/12/03  Mexico

Mexico Seeks Retrial for Citizens on U.S. Death Row.   (EN)

19/12/03  Vatican City

Vatican opposes Death Penalty for Saddam.   (EN)

19/12/03  ONU

Annan Rejects Death Penalty for Saddam.   (IT-EN)

19/12/03  Iran

Khatami rejects the death penalty for Saddam.   (IT)

19/12/03  USA

ABA Seeks Death Penalty Reforms.  (EN)

17/12/03  South Africa

S.Africa opposes re-imposing death penalty.   (EN)

17/12/03  Massachusetts/USA

Gov. Romney wants to restore the death penalty. He thinks it can deter.   (EN)

15/12/03  Italy-Irak

Sant'Egidio calls for a fair trial and no to a death sentence even for Saddam and other Iraqi prisoners.

15/12/03  USA

The Community of Sant'Egidio participated to the meeting calling for the abolition of the death penalty to the juveniles.   (IT)

15/12/03  Uzbekistan

Sant'Egidio visit abolitionist association in Tashkent   (IT)

15/12/03  Nigeria

Death Penalty Stays, Says Minister.   (EN)

13/12/03  Texas/USA

Supreme Court Halts Texas Execution   (IT-EN)

13/12/03  Uzbekistan

Amnesty Report Accuses Government Of Death Penalty Abuses.   (EN)

11/12/03  Kenya

2 men sentenced to hang for violent robbery were yesterday freed by the High Court.   (EN)

11/12/03  North Carolina/USA

NC is on track to execute more death row inmates than ever, but moratorium is not so far.   (EN)

08/12/03  Messico

President Fox spares 2 soldiers facing death penalty.   (IT-EN)

08/12/03  Marocco

Five associations launched campaign for the abolition of the death penalty.  (IT)

06/12/03  Philippines

President announces the end of moratorium. (IT-EN)

06/12/03  North Carolina/USA

Robbie James Lyons, 31, was executed. (EN)

06/12/03  Texas/USA

2 days, 2 executions. Richard Charles Duncan, 61, and IIvan Murphy, 38, were executed. (IT)

04/12/03  Trinidad

Fresh hope for death row inmates, after the London Privy Council rulings.  (EN)

04/12/03  Sudan

5 men sentenced to death for murder. (FR)

01/12/03  Cities for Life
30 NOVEMBER - WORLD DAY -  Cities for Life Cities Against the Death Penalty  - No justice without life

01/12/03  Illinois/USA

Death penalty reform package: the end of moratorium? -  (IT-EN)