Comunità  di S.Egidio

NO to the Death Penalty 
 International Campaign

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September 2001

30/09/01 Rwanda

74 death sencences in the year 2001 - 26/09/01 Continua
30/09/01 Virginia/USA

No More Juvenile Offenders on Virginia's Death Row - 25/09/01 Continua
27/09/01 USA

The Supreme Court to decide if mentally retarde should be spared the death penalty - 25/09/01 Continua
27/09/01 European Union

EU: Suspects After Estradition Cannot Face Execution - 25/09/01 Continua
27/09/01 Turkey

Turkish MPs debate abolishing death penalty to boost EU bid- 24/09/01 Continua
26/09/01 China

Iron hand against members of Falun Gong - 25/09/01 Continua
24/09/01 Congo

Congo's Boy Soldiers Face Death Penalty - 23/09/01 Continua
24/09/01 Texas/USA

Mom in Texas Child Drownings Found Fit for Trial - 22/09/01 Continua
22/09/01 Maryland/USA

Federal Judge Overturns Maryland Death Row Inmate's Conviction - 20/09/01 Continua
22/09/01 Texas/USA

Texas Legislators Urge Governor to Commute Juvenile Death Sentence - 20/09/01 Continua
20/09/01 Texas/USA

James Knox was executed by lethal injection - 19/09/01 Continua
16/09/01 Congo

Death for 8 in 'closed trial'- 14/09/01 Continua

16/09/01 Pennsylvania/USA

Abu-Jamal team releases video of confessor  - 13/09/01 Continua

16/09/01 Uganda

Debate on  Capital Punishment, after release of amn on death row  - 12/09/01 Continua

16/09/01 South Korea

According to a research report Korea executed 101 people between 1987-1997  - 12/09/01 Continua

16/09/01 Nevada/USA

Nevada man released after 20 years on death row faces new murder charge  - 11/09/01 Continua

16/09/01 Texas/USA

Jury To Determine Yates Competency  - 11/09/01 Continua

15/09/01 China

China to use lethal injection - 14/09/01 Continua

15/09/01 USA

Executions Stayed in Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas - 12/09/01 Continua

15/09/01 Arizona/USA

A writer of Italian origin, Richard Rossi, launches an appeal to the Italians from death row - 11/09/01 Continua

15/09/01 USA

British Government To Challenge U.S. Use of the Death Penalty - 11/09/01 Continua

15/09/01 USA

Death Penalty decline: Washington Post comments on drop of executions - 11/09/01 Continua

15/09/01 Indiana/USA

Indiana Trial Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional- 10/09/01 Continua

15/09/01 Oklahoma/USA

Oklahoma Court Stays Execution of Mexican Gerardo Valdez - 10/09/01 Continua

13/09/01 Ohio/USA

John Byrd chooses electric chair. - 10/09/01 Continua

10/09/01 Pennsylvania/USA

U.S. has doubts over death row - 09/09/01 Continua

10/09/01 Iran

Reza Nikou-Goftar, 32, was executed by hanging in a public square. - 08/09/01 Continua

10/09/01 China

Nine execution in one day in Beijing - 08/09/01 Continua

10/09/01 Ruanda

Another man convicted to death  for the genocide - 08/09/01 Continua

10/09/01 USA

Executions Decrease For the 2nd Year  - Va., Texas Show Sharp Drops Amid A National Trend. (A Washington Post Special Report) -  06/09/01 Continua

10/09/01 Yemen

6 Yemenites executed by a firng sqaud - 05/09/01 Continua

09/09/01 North Carolina/USA

Ronald Frye, 42, was executed. His trial attorney admitted to drinking about 12 shots of rum a night while working on his case.- 31/08/01 -  Continua

09/09/01 Oklahoma/USA

Malcom Johnson was executed one year ago. During the trial, Ms. Gilchrist  - city police scientist � said that Mr. Johnson's blood type matched sperm collected from a bedspread and a pillowcase in the victim's apartment  - Today her findings are contradicted and can be considered false -  - 30/08/01 -  Continua

09/09/01 Texas/USA

Gorge Riovas, prison escapee, was sentenced to death- 29/08/01 -  Continua

09/09/01 Texas/USA

Condannato a morte il detenuto evaso l�anno scorso - 29/08/01 -  Continua

09/09/01 USA

Executing the mentally retarded is uncostituzionale, religions groups argue in supreme court brief - 28/08/01 -  Continua

08/09/01 USA

Declaration of Vatican Delegation in Strasbourg-Congress -  CACP -26/08/01 -  Continua

08/09/01 USA

American Psychological Association Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium. - 26/08/01 -  Continua

08/09/01 Thailand

Thailand Sentences 17 to Death for Drug Trafficking. - 25/08/01 -  Continua

04/09/01 Spain

International Meeting Men and Religions - Barcelona 2nd-4th september 2001 - On the frontiers of dialogue: religions and civilizations in the new century  - Round tables - Third Millennium without Death Penalty. Continua

02/09/01 Ukraine

Ukraine, suppression of the death penalty from the penal code. Continua