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Archives News - September 2004

30/09/04 

Texas/USA - Reflections On Execution of J. Allridge, by Dave Atwood (Founder of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty).  (EN)

30/09/04 

Virginia/USA - James Hudson, 57, was executed. He had given up his final appeals.   (IT-EN)

28/09/04 

Louisiana/USA - The words of Ryan Matthews, freed from death row give hope to all those are sentenced to death: "I always knew it would happen. I knew I was innocent, I knew I would ultimately be freed.Never give up hope, no matter how bad it gets."   (EN)

28/09/04 

Iran - Seven iranian men hanged, 2 in public.  (EN)

26/09/04 

Russia - Duma won't bring back death penalty.   (EN)

26/09/04 

Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan: Theo Van Boven (UN) denounces the execution of nine inmates.  (EN)

24/09/04 

 Texas/USA - Is Scott Panetti Sane Enough to Die? Question on a Texan newspaper.   (EN)

24/09/04 

 Iran - Ateqeh Rajabi, 16, was hanged publicly for "acts incompatible with chastity". Amnesty protests.  (EN)

22/09/04 

 Honduras - Jesuits urge the end of the death penalty.  (EN)

22/09/04 

 Filippine - "Legislators Against Death Penalty" was founded by 28 memebrs of Parliament.  (EN)

22/09/04 

 Texas/USA - Andrew Flores, 32, was executed.  (EN)

20/09/04 

 Uzbekistan Ikram Mukhtarov death sentence repealed on August 17th 2004  (EN)

20/09/04 

 USA - 30 religious groups ask U.S. Supreme Court to ban juvenile death penalty.   (EN)

19/09/04 

 Ghana - Abolish Capital Punishment Says Supreme Court Nominee.   (EN)

19/09/04 

 Japan - Protests after the 2 executions.  (EN)

19/09/04 

 USA - Encouraging tendency in some States: life sentences instead of death sentences.   (EN)

17/09/04 

 India - Brutalization Effect: Children Die Imitating Recent Execution in India.   (EN)

17/09/04 

 USA - Ryan's death row reversal becomes film.   (EN)

14/09/04 

 Japan - Suddenly justice decided: M. Takuma and S. Shimasaki have been executed. Amnesty International protests.   (EN)

14/09/04 

 Nevada/USA - Terry Dennis was executed, after giving up all the appeals.   (EN)

16/08/04 

  Urgent Appeal  - Texas/USA - Anthony Fuentes - 29 years old. Sentenced to death Execution date scheduled: Nov. 17 2004.  (EN)

13/09/04 

 Svezia-Nigeria - Nigerian woman believes she faces being stoned to death if Swedish authorities expel her, will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.   (EN)

12/09/04 

 Sierra Leone - Abolitionist associations meet to plan a common strategy for the abolition.  (EN)

12/09/04 

 Tennessee/USA - Judge Stays Workman Execution, Doubts About Case Remain.  (EN)

12/09/04 

 Cina - Two separatists from Turkish ethnic group Uighur, were executed.  (IT)

09/09/04 

 Italia - Meeting Peoples and Religions - Milan - Panel - The Abolition of the Death Penalty: Rendezvous for a New Spiritual Humanism  (IT-EN)

09/09/04 

 Bangladesh - 10 men of the opposition were sentenced to death for homicides.   (IT-FR)

06/09/04 

 Italia/Senegal - President of Senegal Wade at the opening ceremony of Meeting organised by Sant'Egidio said that the trend to abolish the death penalty is encouraging and Senegal is ready to abolish the capital punishment.  (IT-EN)

06/09/04 

 Rwanda - Rwanda Willing to Replace Death Penalty for Transferred Cases.  (IT)

06/09/04 

 Iran - A man was executed by hanging on the public square.  (IT-EN)

04/09/04 

 Italy - XVIII International Meetings Peoples and Religions - Panel: The Abolition of the Death Penalty: Rendezvous for a New Spiritual Humanism.  (IT-EN)

04/09/04 

 USA - Medical groups seek end to death penalty for minors.  (EN)

03/09/04 

 Indonesia - Indonesian court commutes death sentence for Nigerian drug dealer.  (EN)