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31/03/02 China |
| Former
president of Chinese state company sentenced to death on charges
of embezzling $ 9 million.
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31/03/02 France |
| French
rights groups protest death penalty against Moussaoui.
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31/03/02 Swiss/UN |
| Swiss
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Joseph Deiss, launched an appeal for
world abolition of death penalty, during his speech at UN Human
Rights Commission.
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30/03/02 Uganda |
| 2
Ugandans Executed for Killing Irish Priest.
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30/03/02 Japan |
| Should
courts always spare minors the death penalty? Japanese newspapers
debate, after a famous case.
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30/03/02 Usa |
| Ashcroft
to Decide Soon whether to seek the death penalty against Zacarias
Moussaoui, the French citizen who is convicted of conspiring in
the Sept. 11 attacks.
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28/03/02 Nigeria |
| Again
Federal and Northern authorities argue because of death
penalty and sharia.
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28/03/02 Nigeria |
| Amina
Lawal: another woman sentenced to death by stoning, like Safiya,
on the day of her acquittal.
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28/03/02 Taiwan |
| The
Judicial Reform Foundation presented an appela to the Minister of
Justice in favour of a death row inmate.
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28/03/02 Nigeria |
| Sharia
Appeal Court Frees Safiya: Newspapers in Nigeria report.
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27/03/02 USA |
| US
Says Death Penalty No Block to EU-US Extradition.
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25/03/02 Nigeria |
| Safiya
is alive. - Press release of the Community of Sant'Egidio
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25/03/02 Nigeria |
| SAFIYA
ACQUITTED
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25/03/02 Nigeria |
| Nigeria
court to rule on stoning (BBC before the Court sentence).
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25/03/02 Nigeria |
| Catholic
Archbishop of Lagos Okogie Warns Against Killing Safiya.
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25/03/02 Singapore |
| A
German woman charged with drug trafficking could be sentenced to
death.
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25/03/02 USA |
| San
Antonio, (Texas), Archbishop Patrick J. Flores warns those
Catholics who support capital punishment: they in direct
opposition to the teachings of their Church.
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24/03/02 USA |
| Chicago
Cardinal Francis George terms death penalty 'immoral'.
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24/03/02 Vietnam |
| Prime
Minister Phan Van Khai doesn�t like firing squad and wants to
find other means of execution.
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23/03/02 Texas/USA |
| The
execution of Rodolfo Hernandez (rthe man who had asked an
artificial leg) was stayed just some minutes before the time
scheduled.
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23/03/02 Nigeria |
| 130
World Women Parliamentarians Call for Amnesty for Safiya Husseini.
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23/03/02 European Union/Nigeria |
| Spanish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Piqu�, speaking for European Union,
presented an appeal in favour of Safiya, during his intervention
at UN Human Rights Commission at Geneva.
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23/03/02 China |
| Eight
executions in one day in Bejing.
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22/03/02 Nigeria |
| Sharia
architect defends law Penalties can include amputation, flogging
and stoning.
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22/03/02 Nigeria |
| "Sharia
is Unconstitutional", says Justice Minister (we report the
full text of the letter entitled, "Prohibition of
discriminatory punishments"). Will Safiya's life be spared.
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22/03/02 Italy/NIgeria |
| Italy
Daily reports an interview with Mario Marazziti, of the
Sant�Egidio Community, about the case of Safiya.
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22/03/02 France/USA |
| Paris
Warns U.S. Against Moussaoui Death Penalty.
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22/03/02 Texas/USA |
| The
Court of Criminal Appeals refused to order a new punishment
hearing for Victor Salda�o, an Argentine man, who was sentenced
to deaht "because he is hispanic".
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21/03/02 Turkey |
| Vice
Prime Minister Yilmaz says that his Government by December will
decide about the abolition of death penalty.
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21/03/02 Florida/USA |
| Another
Briton facing death penalty in US.
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21/03/02 Iraq |
| Iraq
Dissidents Say that 6 Officers were executed.
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20/03/02 Nigeria |
| The
New York Times and Le Monde: Safiya will wait another week to know
her destiny.
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20/03/02 Nigeria |
| African
newspapers report the news regarding the postponement of appeal
for Safiya�s sentence.
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20/03/02 European Union/Nigeria |
| The
15 Prime Ministers of EU, at the end of their meeting in Barcelona
concerned and �on the alert� about Safiya�s life.
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20/03/02 Tennesee/USA |
| Abu-Ali
Abdur'Rahman has chosen to be electrocuted, rather than die by
lethal injection, if his execution proceeds as scheduled on April
10.
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19/03/02 Philippines |
| Anti-crime
activists have raised the alarm over the possible repeal of the
country's death penalty law. The Catholic Church and Manila
Cardinal Sin came out in full support of the Senate move to amend
the death penalty law: �the death penalty has not deterred the
rampant criminality in the country.�.
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19/03/02 Oklahoma/USA |
| An
appeals court in Denver overturned the murder conviction of James
T. Fischer, a death-row inmate, because judges concluded his
lawyer was "grossly inept and sabotaged his client's defense�.
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18/03/02 Nigeria |
| The
appeal of Safiya was postponed to march 25th.
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18/03/02 Texas/USA |
| A
jury spared the life of Andrea Yates, sentencing the mentally ill
Houston mother to life in prison for drowning her 5 children in
their bathtub.
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18/03/02 Virginia/USA |
| James
Earl Patterson, 35, was executed by lethal injection.
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17/03/02 Italy/Nigeria |
| New
appeal
of the Community of Sant'Egidio for Safiya.
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17/03/02 Georgia/USA |
| The
great defender Clive Stafford Smith: "Death row will be
abolished".
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16/03/02 Texas/USA |
| A
Texas jury found Andrea Yates guilty of capital murder in the
drowning deaths of her five young children last summer.
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16/03/02 Russia |
| Russian
President Vladimir Putin has spoken out strongly against lifting
the presidential moratorium on the death penalty.
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15/03/02 Georgia/USA
- Great Britain |
| Time
runs out for Briton on death row Unprecedented appeal - and UK
efforts - fail to win clemency.
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15/03/02 Georgia/USA |
| Tracy
Housel, 43, British, was executed.
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15/03/02 Illinois/USA |
| Death
Penalty Foes See Progress in Ill.Governor's Pledge to Review All
Cases Called Latest Sign of Shifting Sentiment. (Washington Post).
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14/03/02 USA |
| Facing
Life on the Outside After Death Row: Juan Roberto Melendez is at
home.
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14/03/02 Georgia/USA |
| An
International Coalition of Death Penalty Opponents ask to stop the
xecution of Tracy Housel.
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14/03/02 China |
| China
expands use of lethal injection.
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13/03/02 Nigeria |
| Mgr.
Olubunmi Okogie, the Catholic Archbishop of the Lagos Archdiocese,
has voluntarily offered to die in place of Safiya.
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12/03/02
Illinois/USA |
| �Time
to bury death penalty�. The words of Ryan, at the end of his career of governor.
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11/03/02
Nigeria/European Union |
| In
an appeal on the eve of International Women's Day, Council
of Europe Secretary-General Walter Schwimmer urged Nigeria not to
allow the stoning to death of Safiya.
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11/03/02
Georgia/USA |
| 'This
place is absolute hell'�, said Tracy Housel, the British citizen
whose execution is scheduled in some says.
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10/03/02
Texas/USA |
| Texas
Executes Man Who Claimed Innocence to the End.
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09/03/02
Italy/Nigeria |
| Appeal
of the Community of Sant'Egidio for Safiya.
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08/03/02
Illinois/USA |
| Ryan
Weighs Clemency for All on Illinois Death Row.
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08/03/02
Russia/USA |
| Russians
reply to Americans as to human rigth: start yourself to abolish
death penalty.
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08/03/02
Texas/USA |
| The
trial of Andrea Yates has revived the debate about mental illness
and capital punishment.
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07/03/02
Missouri/USA |
| Jeffrey
Tokar, 37, was executed.
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07/03/02
Taipei |
| The
death penalty must be killed. Abolitionists speak out in Taipei.
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07/03/02
USA |
| Scalia
vs. pope on death penalty.
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06/03/02
Virginia/USA |
| Daniel
gives up appeals. Execution date set for April 12.
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06/03/02
Turkey |
| By
the end of year 2002 Turkey will enter EU, if death penalty is
abolished.
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06/03/02
Georgia/USA - Great Britain |
| The
British government has plunged into a campaign to spare the life
of Tracy Lee Housel, a dual American-British citizen scheduled to
be executed next month.
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06/03/02
Philippines |
| Former
President Estrada said he is ready to accept death sentence.
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06/03/02
Brunei |
| It
will be easier to hang drug offenders.
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05/03/02
Turkey |
| Ankara
twists and turns over question of abolishing death penalty.
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05/03/02
USA |
| Life
in prison, not execution.Death penalty for mentally retarded
killers should be declared cruel and unusual.
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05/03/02
China |
| Two
men were executed in Beijing.
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05/03/02
USA |
| The
latest edition of NAACP Report :: �Death Row USA," Winter
2002�. The imates on death row now are 3,711, Reversing a trend
of increasing death row populations since 1976.
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05/03/02
Florida/USA |
| The
killers of a killer (the case of Frank Valdes).
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05/03/02
USA |
| Why
the supreme court may reverse itself this term, to hold, in a new
case, that executing the mentally retarded is unconstitutional.
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04/03/02
Guatemala |
| Six
men sentenced to death write to the Pope and ask for his
intervention.
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04/03/02 Turkey |
| Today
the decision on the case of Ocalan.
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04/03/02
Singapore |
| 2
Thais get death penalty for of drug pusher.
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04/03/02 USA |
| The
Death Penalty Re-examined - America's death penalty system is
badly broken (New York Times).
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04/03/02 Texas/USA |
| Rick
Halperin, president of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty, spoke to the students: "This struggle is much bigger
than just the death penalty, (�)You can't have a better society
when you believe that certain people need to be exterminated.".
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04/03/02 Colorado/USA |
| �Frank
Rodriguez (who has a very serious liver disease) will not be
executed�, says the lawyer .
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04/03/02 Ohio/USA |
| State
prison officials plan to dismantle Ohio's electric chair.
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04/03/02 California/USA |
| America,
Incarcerated or Executed; Death penalty thrives in climate of fear
(San Francisco Chronicle).
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03/03/02 USA |
| Supreme
Court weighs state's right to execute mentally.
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03/03/02
Illinois/USA |
| Candidate
for Illinois Governor On Ending the Death Penalty.
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03/03/02
USA |
| Death
penalty - Put questionable system under moratorium.
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02/03/02
Texas/USA |
| Monty
Delk, 35, was executed despite insanity claim.
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02/03/02
Italy |
| �Right
to life and death penalty�, is the title of a conference
organized by the University of Naples.
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01/03/02
Florida/USA |
| Valdes'
family: We'll sue state to seek justice.
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01/03/02
USA |
| February
was �the month of doubt�: stays, commutations, debates, etc.
The system is broken ....
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