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NO to the Death Penalty
International Campaign
       Comunità di Sant'Egidio

April 2003

30/04/03  Cuba/Vatican

Pope had asked Castro clemency for the terrorists sentenced to death.   (IT-EN)

29/04/03 USA

Amnesty Int'l Assesses Death Penalty Use.   (EN)

28/04/03  Illinois/USA

New Governor to maintain moratorium.   (IT-EN)

28/04/03  Texas/USA

Juan Chavez, 34, was executed.   (EN-ES)

26/04/03  ONU/Commissione Diritti Umani
U.N. rights body backs end to death penalty. The Community of Sant'Egidio: it is a great occasion to relaunch the campaign: a world moratorium is now a target that can be more achievable.  (IT-EN)

26/04/03  Cuba

According to the Ambassador of Cuba to the EU the 3 executions were legal and there was no violation of human rights.   (IT)

26/04/03  Cuba

Reactions in the world after the 3 executions.   (ES-IT)

25/04/03  Zambia

President Mwanawasa appointed commission to review the constitution and advise on whether to abolish the death penalty.   (EN)

24/04/03  Arabia Saudita

A man was beheaded for drug trafficking.   (IT)

23/04/03  Texas/USA

Kenneth Wayne Morris won a reprieve two hours before his scheduled execution  (EN-ES)

22/04/03  Armenia

Armenian parliament approved new Criminal Code that abolishes the death penalty, except for special cases.   (EN-ES)

21/04/03  Cuba

Nobel Prize Saramago, after the executions in Cuba, speaks against Castro.    (IT-ES)

19/04/03  USA/Iraq

Abu Abbas was arrested in Iraq. Now the daughters of Leo Klinghoffer say: "We want justice, not the death penalty for the killer of our father."   (IT)

19/04/03  Amnesty International/Cuba

Amnesty speaks out after the esecutions in Cuba.   (EN)

19/04/03  Oklahoma/USA

Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40, was executed.   (IT-EN)

17/04/03  Sry Lanka

Sri Lankan Christians Opposing Reintroduction of Death Penalty---Looking for Alternative Ways to Deal With Rising Crime Rate.   (EN)

17/04/03  Virginia/USA

Earl C. Bramblett, 61, was executed in the electric chair.   (EN)

17/04/03  Virginia/USA

He has chosen the electric chair.   (IT)

16/04/03  Oklahoma/USA

Don Wilson Hawkins, 43, was executed.   (IT-EN)

15/04/03  Council of Europe/USA

Council of Europe launches a campaign directed to the Members of US Parliament to abolish the death penalty.   (IT)

14/04/03  Cuba

Three men sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad..   (IT)

13/04/03  Amnesty International

1,526 executions in the world in 2002. China, Iran and U.S. Top Executioners, Amnesty Says.   (EN-IT)

12/04/03  Florida/USA-Switzerland

American Pastor Masters at the UN Human Rights Commission: no life sentence and no death penalty for juveniles.  (EN)

12/04/03  USA

Justice O'Connor Speaks About Death Penalty Cases.   (EN)

11/04/03  Libia

Amnesty International asks the judges to quash 2 death sentences.   (FR)

11/04/03  United Kingdom

Government would not send people to the US under new extradition measures if they might face the death penalty.   (EN)

10/04/03  Armenia

The deadline set by the Council of Europe for Armenia to abolish death penalty is expiring.   (EN)

10/04/03  Illinois/USA

Pulittzer Prize 2003 to Cornelia Grumman for writing a series of editorials against the death penalty.   (EN)

10/04/03  Arizona/USA

Supreme Court to examine 27 death sentences.  (IT-EN)

09/04/03  Italy/Nigeria/

Nigerian Embassy in Rome clears up - after many conflicting voices - that Amina had not yet a definitive death sentence and it will be necessary to wait for the hearing of June 3rd.  (IT-EN)

09/04/03  Kansas/USA

Kansas Chief Justice Notes High Cost of Death Penalty.   (EN)

09/04/03  Vietnam

Nong Quoc Luong, 25, was executed.   (EN)

08/04/03  Texas/USA       Urgent Appeal

Bruce Jacobs - 57 years old -  Sentenced to death  (EN)

08/04/03  Texas/USA

James Colburn, 43, (mentally ill), was executed.  (IT-EN)

07/04/03  Botswana

Pending execution.  (EN)

06/04/03  Oklahoma/USA

Scott Allen Hain, 32, was executed. (IT)

05/04/03  Nigeria/Italy

Ambassador of Nigeria invites Mayor of Rome to be at the next hearing for Amina, next June 3rd. (IT)

03/04/03  Texas/USA

For the first time a hearing on a bill to abolish the death penalty was held in the State Capitol in Austin. The testimony of Dave Atwood (Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty)  (EN)

02/04/03  Indonesia

Indon delays execution of death row convicts. (EN)

01/04/03  Texas/USA

Sympathizers gain some relief that mom spared death penalty. (EN)

01/04/03  Saudi Arabia

Mis'ed bin Ziyab al-Mutairi was beheaded with sword. (EN)