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

July 2003

29/07/03  USA

2 Britons at Guantanamo Will Not Face the Death Penalty, Official says. (IT-EN)

29/07/03  Vietnam

2 famous businessmen were executed. (FR)

27/07/03  EU

No agreement. EU will not present a common proposal of resolution to NEXT UN General Assembly for a world moratorium. (IT)

27/07/03  USA/Gran Bretagna

Britain abandoned attempts to have its detained by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay repatriated. (IT-EN)

27/07/03  Oklahoma-Virginia/USA

Bryan Anthony Toles, 31, and Bobby Wayne Swisher, 27, were executed. were executed. (EN-IT-ES)

25/07/03  USA

New York Time Magazine Examines Why Death Penalty Jurors Are Sparing Lives. (EN)

25/07/03  Pennsylvania/USA

Pennsylvania churches seek death penalty moratorium. (EN)

23/07/03  North Carolina/USA

Juries, which reduced the number of death sentences, sent a strong signal to the N.C. House to pass the death penalty moratorium.  (EN)

23/07/03  Saudi Arabia

65 inmates - from several countries - are on death row. (IT)

23/07/03  India

Govt considering death penalty for selling spurious drugs. (EN)

22/07/03  USA

Number of death sentences dropping in United States. Juries increasingly looking at other sentencing options.  (EN)

20/07/03  Kenya

Debate death-row pardons, after 195 commutations.  (EN)

20/07/03  Amnesty International/USA

Amnesty denounces the isolation of US, which still leads worldwide execution of child offenders.  (EN)

20/07/03  Connecticut/USA

Death Row Inmate: 'Let's Go'---Convicted Killer Asks Judge To Remove Obstacles To State's 1st Execution Since 1960.  (EN)

20/07/03  Texas/USA

Christopher Black Senior, 43, was executed.Christopher Black Senior, 43 anni, � stato messo a morte.  (IT-EN)

18/07/03  Nigeria

"Amina will not be stoned" says the Minister of Female Affairs of Zamfara, now in Italy.  (IT)

18/07/03  Arkansas/USA

Riley Dobi Noel, 31, was executed. (IT-EN)

18/07/03  Kenya

Robinson Njero Githae, viceminister of Justice, says that Kenya will support at UN the resolution for the moratorium. (IT)

17/07/03  Iran/Holland

Dutch Iranian saved from death penalty. (EN)

17/07/03  Texas/USA

Hilton Crawford, 64, was executed. (IT-EN)

15/07/03  Uzbekistan/United Nations

UN Human Rights Official Urges Uzbekistan Not To Execute Detainees.  (EN)

15/07/03  Tajikistan

Parliament cancels death penalty for women. (EN)

13/07/03  Puerto Rico/USA

Puerto Rico Death Penalty Case Draws Fire: executions could start again, after 76 years. (IT-EN)

13/07/03  Italy

Hands off Cain reports: 4.078 executions in 2002. (IT)

13/07/03  Oklahoma/USA

Robert Don Duckett, 39, was executed. (IT-EN)

11/07/03  UE/USA

EU Commission warns the US not to use the death penalty for the 6 prisoners in Guantanamo. (IT)

11/07/03  Saudi Arabia

Saudi man beheaded (EN)

11/07/03  Oklahoma/USA

Lewis Eugene Gilbert, 31, was executed.  (IT-EN)

09/07/03  Switzerland

Death penalty officially banned, even in wartime. (EN)

09/07/03  Italy/European Union

Several Italian members of European Parliament suggest to Italian Government to present at U.N. a resolution on the moratorium. (IT)

06/07/03  Uzbekistan

Re-launch of the the appeals in favour of Evgenij Jurevic Gugnin and Azamat Uteev. Support the appeals of Amnesty International for other 3 young people. (IT-EN)

06/07/03  USA

"Death Row USA", new report on the inmates convicted to death. (EN)

04/07/03  Council of Europe

Europe-wide ban on death penalty even in wartime begins. (IT-EN)

04/07/03  Ohio/USA
Ernest Martin, 42, was executed.   (IT-EN)

02/07/03  Virginia/USA

Gov. postpones to July 22nd execution of Bobby Wayne Swisher. (IT-EN)

02/07/03  Malaysia

AI workshop on the death penalty in Penang. (EN)

02/07/03  Zimbabwe

4 men were hanged (FR)