May 2002

	31/05/02  Italy
	Death penalty. The unfair  row of justice (V. Andreoli). (IT)
	31/05/02  Texas/USA
	Many newspapers in the world on the execution of Napoleon Beazley.  (IT-EN)
	30/05/02  Russia
	Pravda: Russians on the issue of the death penalty.  (EN)
	30/05/02  Michigan/USA
	Death-penalty case defense cost $730,000.  (EN)
	29/05/02  Texas/USA
	Napoleon Beazley was executed for a murder committed at 17. (IT-EN)
	29/05/02  Nigeria
	The appeal for Amina Lawal will be examined on June 3rd. (IT)
	29/05/02  European Union
	Europe, one currency and one common root: to reject racism and death penalty, President Prodi said. (IT)
	29/05/02  Illinois/USA
	Clemency push for all 160 on Death Row. The opinion of Gov. Ryan. (EN)
	29/05/02  Maryland/USA
	Death penalty issue No. 1. (EN)
	28/05/02  Texas/USA
	Interview with Napoleon Beazley, whose esecution is scheduled in a few hours. (EN)
	28/05/02  USA
	230 in House back bill to reform death penalty. (EN)
	28/05/02  Maryland/USA
	Abolitionists find a new momentum, also with the support of Jesse Jackson. (EN)
	28/05/02  Pakistan
	The case of Zafran Bibi, sentenced to death for adultery, on the New York Times. (EN)
	28/05/02  UN
	UN children's forum concludes after bitter debate. (IT-EN)
	27/05/02  Mali
	The government of Mali  approved a draft law suspending the application of the death penalty for 2 years (Misna). (EN)
	27/05/02  Maryland/USA
	Eliminating Questions of Life or Death (the Washington Post) (EN)
	26/05/02  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.  (IT-EN)
	26/05/02  Italy
	The catalog of the executioner : the statistics of the death penalty in the world. (il sole 24 ore). (IT)
	26/05/02  Vietnam
	Chen Chi Tien, 48, a Taiwan man, was executed for drug-production. (EN)
	26/05/02  Hungary
	Prime minister says Hungary should consider reinstatement of death penalty. (EN)
	25/05/02  Vaticano
	H.E. Archbishop Francesco Monterisi, Secretary of the Congregation for the Bishops signed the appeal  for the Wordl moratorium of the death penalty.
	25/05/02  USA
	U.S. Senators Call for Moratorium on Executions. (EN)
	25/05/02  Iran
	Six men were hanged in one day. (IT-EN)
	25/05/02  Georgia/USA
	Judge Notes Expensive Bottom Line in Capital Cases. (EN)
	24/05/02  Texas/USA
	Martinez executed despite plea from victim's mother. His last words for giving thanks to her. (IT-EN)
	24/05/02  Texas/USA
	Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes a  letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles regarding Napolean Beazley (whose execution is scheduled on May 28th). (EN)
	24/05/02  Texas/USA
	Death row inmates seek competent representation. (EN)
	24/05/02  Pakistan
	Zafran Bibi was raped, but a Pakistan judge decided it was adultery - now this young mother will be stoned to death (The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune). (EN)
	24/05/02  USA
	Who Gets the Death Penalty? And how's this for a mistake in a death penalty case? (New York Times). (EN)
	24/05/02  Saudi Arabia
	Afghan beheaded for drug smuggling. (EN)
	24/05/02  Texas/USA
	Pending executions renew debate on retarded -- Advocates urging state to re-evaluate policy on killing inmates. (EN)
	23/05/02  Pakistan
	Zafran assured of support in stoning to death case. (EN)
	23/05/02  USA
	Reform Judaism Magazine Addresses Capital Punishment: the faith's historical reasoning for opposing capital punishment. (EN)
	23/05/02  Texas/USA
	Martinez  'grateful' for letter - Victim's mother trying to stop man's execution. (EN)
	23/05/02  Illinois/USA
	Illinois Governor Proposes Death Penalty Revisions. (EN)
	23/05/02  Texas/USA
	On Tex. Death Row, Old Issues Renewed (Washington Post). (EN)
	23/05/02  Maryland/USA
	Doing race to death.Moratorium in Marland after many cases of death sentences with an evident racial bias. (EN)
	23/05/02  USA
	Death penalty deception. (The Washington Times). (EN)
	23/05/02  Nigeria
	Sariyyu Moham-med Baranda was convicted to death by stoning. (EN)
	23/05/02  Texas/USA
	�I do not want another mother suffers as I did�, wrote the victim�s mother appealing to the Court of Texas, but her plea to halt the execution  was refused. (IT-EN)
	23/05/02  Uganda
	The Chief of Military Intelligence and army MP, Lt.Col. Noble Mayombo Supports Death Penalty. (EN)
	23/05/02  Saudi Arabia
	A Saudi woman and an Ethiopian man were beheaded. (EN)
	22/05/02  Texas/USA
	The execution of Napoleon Beazley will be carried out next May 28th. Napoleon was sentenced to death when he was juvenile, 17 years old. We call for everybody to subscribe our urgent appeal so that his life is spared. (EN)
	22/05/02  USA
	Digging a grave for capital punishment? - State moratoriums have some in the U.S. predicting the end is near. (Toronto Globe). (EN)
	22/05/02  Maryland/USA
	Death penalty debate revived, after the decision of the Governor.  (EN)
	21/05/02  Russia
	Officials urge Putin to reinstate death penalty.  (EN)
	21/05/02  Bangladesh
	Mofazzal Hossain, 45, was executed by hanging. It was the first execution after 14 years.  (EN)
	21/05/02  Louisiana/USA
	Leslie Martin was executed. (IT)
	21/05/02  Florida/USA
	Amnesty International wants U.S. to investigate Frank Valdes� death on death row. (EN)
	21/05/02  Giordania
	A man and a woman executed together by hanging, after being convicted for the murder of her husband. (IT)
	21/05/02  USA
	Time to kill death penalty? U.S. opposition to `national shame' of Death Row grows. (EN)
	21/05/02  USA
	Events give 101 reasons to end death penalty, cardinal Mc Carrick, Archbishop of Washington, says. (EN)
	20/05/02  Missouri/USA     Urgent Appeal
	William R. Jones, has been for 7 years on death row. He asked for our help. You can send the petition and use the form on the web-site (in English, French, German).
	20/05/02  Philippines
	Under Oreta Aquino�s initiative, death penalty for juveniles will be banned.  (EN)
	20/05/02  Texas/USA
	Ronford Styron, 32, was executed.  (IT-EN)
	20/05/02  Saudi Arabia
	Two men were beheaded in Riyadh.  (EN)
	19/05/02  Texas/USA
	Johnny Martinez. His date of execution is scheduled on May 22nd. Victim's Mom asks parole board to spare son's murderer. (EN)  (see our urgent appeal)
	19/05/02  Alabama/USA
	Lynda Lyon Block, 53, was the last person to be executed with the electric chair, that in July will be abolished in Alabama. (IT-EN-FR)
	19/05/02  Texas/USA
	Reginald Reeves, 28, was executed. (IT-EN)
	19/05/02  Pakistan
	Zafran, the woman condenned by lapidation with the accusation of adultry has presented a request for acquittal. (IT) (see our urgent appeal)
	19/05/02  Kenya
	Not Hanging Could Be Cruel? (The Nation � Nairobi). (EN)
	19/05/02  New York/USA
	For Death Penalty, a Day of Reckoning. (EN)
	18/05/02  Pakistan
	2 Afghan nationals hanged. (EN)
	18/05/02  Japan    Urgent Appeal
	Seijiro Yamano - aged 64. (EN)
	18/05/02  Missouri/USA
	Missouri Supreme Court delays Christopher Simmons execution to June 5. (EN)
	18/05/02  Kenya/UN
	Kenya Shuns UN Vote On Death Penalty. (EN)
	18/05/02  Georgia/USA
	How many innocent people on death row? (The Atlanta Journal Constitution).   (EN)
	18/05/02  New York/USA
	19 law professors who oppose the death penalty, signed a brief which shows how the State Constitution bans every cruel and unusual punishment. (EN)
	17/05/02  Texas/USA
	Henry Dunn was granted a reprieve by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, only few hours before the execution.  (IT-EN)  (see our urgent appeal)
	17/05/02  USA
	Take it from one who knows: death penalty system is broken.Ray Krone describes his terrible experience.  (EN)
	17/05/02  Iran
	A man was hanged with a public execution.  (IT)
	17/05/02  Italy
	Nothern Italy newspapers describe the meetings organized by the Community of Sant�Egidio in several cities with Bill Pelke, prominent American abolitionist.  (EN)
	16/05/02  Indonesia
	Indonesia sentences Malaysian to death for bombing.  (EN)
	14/05/02  Uzbekistan
	The death sentence for 2 young men was commuted into 12 years sentence, thanks to the intervention of the Association "Mothers against death penalty".  (IT-EN)
	14/05/02  Italy
	The World Coalition against death penalty was born in Rome yesterday, with the participation of the Mayors of Rome, Washington, Barcelona, Grenoble and numerous personalities.  (IT-EN-FR)
	13/05/02  USA
	Freed man talking: La CNN intervista Ray Krone, recentmente liberato dal braccio della morte.  (EN)
	12/05/02  Tailand
	Amnesty International urged the Thai Prime Minister to scrap the death penalty, following five executions last week.  (IT)
	12/05/02  Pakistan   Urgent Appeal
	Zafran Bibi (Pakistan) - aged 26 -  was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.  (EN)
	11/05/02  Maryland/USA
	Gov. Glendening Declares Death Penalty Moratorium. (EN)
	10/05/02  Italy
	Altogether to abolish capital punishment everywhere. On May 13th numerous Leaders of abolitionist associations meet in Rome, on the invitation of the Sant�Egidio Community, to found the World Coalition against the death penalty. (IT)
	10/05/02  Texas/USA
	Brian Edward Davis, 33, mentally retarded, got a stay from US Supreme Court, few hours before the execution. (EN)
	10/05/02  Italy
	The book of Aldo Forbice �I signori della morte� was presented in Rome. (IT-EN)
	09/05/02  Germany
	On May 3rd in Berlin there was a public meeting organized by the Sant'Egidio Community, at the biggest university in the city, within the campaign to abolish the death penalty. Sam Sheppard, among the founders of the association "The Journey of hope", spoke about his experience as a murder victim. (IT-EN)
	09/05/02  Pennsylvania/USA
	Thomas H. Kimbell is the 101st former death row inmate who was exonerated and freed. (EN)
	08/05/02  Indiana/USA
	H.E. Mgr. Joseph Dale MELCZEK, the Catholic Bishop of GARY, Indiana (USA) signed the appeal supporting the International Campaign of Sant�Egidio Community  for a World moratorium of the death penalty.
	08/05/02  European Union
	Council of Europe Rule Out Death Penalty even in Wartime.US and Japan invited to cease the cruel punishment. (IT-EN)
	07/05/02 USA
	Judge Questions the Constitutionality of Federal Death Penalty on the ground that innocent people are being sentenced to death "with a frequency far greater than previously supposed. (IT-EN)
	06/05/02 Italy
	On May 7th Mario Marazziti will present the new book of Aldo Forbice �I signori della morte�, a map of the countries which still use death penalty. (IT)
	06/05/02 Italy
	Bill Pelke, president and cofounder of �Journey of Hope�, one of the most important associations against death penalty in the US, will be in Northern Italy on May 6th-10th with the Community of Sant�Egidio, for a series of public conferences (Verona, Bologna, Piacenza, Parma, Novara, Torino). (IT)
	06/05/02 Sud Carolina/USA
	Richard Charles Johnson, 39, was executed. (IT-EN)
	05/05/02 Texas/USA
	Nine executions in Texas in next 4 1/2 weeks.  (IT-EN)
	05/05/02 USA
	According to New York Times Democrats should take the high ground on capital punishment, as a gutsy Republican Governor George Ryan of Illinois did.  (EN)
	04/05/02  Maryland/USA
	The death penalty deception. The case of  Wesley Eugene Baker  illustrates the racist and arbitrary nature of death row.  (EN)
	04/05/02  China
	Ten people were executed in Eastern China.  (IT)
	04/05/02  Illinois/USA
	Another look at capital punishment Penalty: An Illinois panel's study again raises the question whether state-sanctioned killing is a fair form of punishment.  (EN)
	03/05/02  Nigeria
	Islamic prosecutors seek death penalty for Christian converts, but judge avoids death sentence.  (EN)
	03/05/02  Saudi Arabia
	Eid bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Assiri was beheaded.  (EN)
	03/05/02  Iran
	Gholam Ramazanifar, was granted a stay of the execution and then a commutation, on request of the victim�s family, when the rope was already on his neck.   (IT)
	03/05/02  Tennessee/USA
	Corte Suprema esaminera' caso del Tennessee che potrebbe avere riflessi su numerosi appelli pendenti.   (IT-EN)
	02/05/02  Texas/USA
	Supreme Court halts execution of Curtis Moore, 34,mentally retarded.   (IT-EN)
	02/05/02  Texas/USA
	Texas Executes Rodolfo Hernandez, 52, the One-Legged Inmate, after denying him a request to be fitted with a prosthetic device (so he could walk to his death "like a man"). (IT-EN)
	01/05/02  UN
	UN Human Rights Commission approved resolution for the abolition of death penalty presented by EU. (IT-EN)
	01/05/02  European Union/USA
	EU to propose an agrement with US on extradition, only without death penalty. (IT)