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Archives News - July 2004

31/07/04 

 Kuwait - Ghanam Abdallah Al-Mouteiri was executed by hanging.  (FR)

31/07/04 

 OSCE/Libia - OSCE urged Libyan not to execute 6 foreign medical workers.  (EN)

28/07/04 

 Virginia/USA - Mark Bailey, 34, was executed.  (IT-EN)

28/07/04 

 Indonesia - An Indian and 2 Thai nationals facing the death penalty for smuggling heroin. Appeals of Indian Govt. and Amnesty International.  (IT-EN)

28/07/04 

 USA  - Federal appeals court ruled that conditions on Mississippi's death row are so bad that they amount to cruel and unusual punishment and therefore they are against the Constitution.  (IT-EN)

26/07/04 

 Saudi Arabia  - Sri Lankan maid was executed for murder.  (IT-EN)

26/07/04 

 USA  - Bishops` Conference To Submit Amicus Brief To Supreme Court In Juvenile Death Penalty Case.  (EN)

23/07/04 

 Nigeria  - Hope for death row: 23 Nigerians waiting in jail to be stoned to death under the strict Islamic sharia code may soon be reprieved.  (EN)

23/07/04 

 USA  - John Danforth, nomined to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is a long-time opponent of capital punishment.  (EN)

21/07/04 

 Senegal  - Presidente Wade presented a bill to abolish the death penalty. The reactions of the abolitionists in the country.  (FR)

21/07/04 

 Ohio/Usa  - Stephen Vrabel, 47, was executed. He was a severe schizophrenic and he had waived all appeals.  (EN)

21/07/04 

 North Dakota/Minnesota/Usa  - Catholic bishops oppose death penalty for Rodriguez.  (IT-EN-ES)

21/07/04 

 Lebanon  - Draft law presented to Parliament for abolishing capital punishment.   (EN)

17/07/04 

 Giamaica-Trinidad Tobago  - Privy Council has ruled that mandatory death penalty for murder convictions is unconstitutional in Jamaica, not in Trinidad and Barbados.   (EN)

17/07/04 

 USA  - Alan Gell, former death row inmate, speaks at forum on death penalty moratorium.  (EN)

16/07/04 

 Zimbabwe  - Why Death Penalty Should Be Abolished? (Amnesty International Zimbabwe).   (EN)

16/07/04 

 India  - Efforts on to prove death row convict mad.  (EN)

15/07/04 

 Iraq  - President Allawi wants soon limited death penalty.  (EN)

15/07/04 

 Afganistan  - Karzai Seeks Death for Afghan Organ Traffickers. (IT-EN)

11/07/04 

 Indonesia  - President Megawati Soekarnoputri refused to pardon seven convicted drug traffickers, who were sentenced to death.    (EN)

11/07/04 

 Georgia/USA  - Robert Hicks, 47, was executed.   (EN)

11/07/04 

 Texas/USA  - David Ray Harris, 43, was executed.   (EN)

11/07/04 

 USA  - Death Penalty Poses Ethics Quandary for Doctors.   (EN)

09/07/04 

 Whispers from death row. M. Marazziti (Sant'Egidio) examines the status of the death penalty worldwide. (IT)

09/07/04 

 UK/Iraq  - The UK is to strongly urge the new Iraqi authorities not to execute Saddam Hussein.  (IT)

06/07/04 

 Uzbekistan  - The courage of a mother: Tamara Chicunova.  (IT)

06/07/04 

 ONU  - Former Italian Ambassador Fulci says that now, after many attempts to present at UN a resolution against the death penalty, it is time to try again.   (EN-IT)

04/07/04 

 India  - Kolkata hangman prepares for execution.   (EN-IT)

04/07/04 

 New York/USA  - New York Religious Leaders Unite Against Death Penalty, Call for Moratorium.   (EN-IT)

04/07/04 

 USA  - Supreme Court OKs 'cruel and unusual punishment' death penalty appeal.    (EN-IT)

02/07/04 

 Italia/Uzbekistan  - Tamara Chicunova, founder of "Mothers against the death penalty and torture" is awarded the "Golden Dove" on July 1st in Rome.  (EN-IT)