April 2004

	29/04/04  Afghanistan
	Abdullah Shah was executed. First execution after the fall of taleban regime. (EN)
	29/04/04  USA
	Rosalynn Carter Calls for End to Juvenile Death Penalty.   (EN)
	27/04/04  Uzbekistan
	Evgenij Gugnin, already sentenced to death, was given 20 years of prison (see our urgent appeal).  (IT)
	27/04/04  Sud Carolina/USA
	Jerry McWee, 51, was executed  (EN)
	27/04/04  China
	18 vans used as 'death on wheels' .  (EN)
	25/04/04  ONU - Ginevra
	U.N. Human Rights Commission Calls for International Death Penalty Moratorium.  (EN-IT)
	25/04/04  Italy
	On April 28th public meeting in Salerno with Tamara Chicunova, founder of the Association �Mothers against the Death Penalty and Torture, from Uzbekistan. (IT)
	25/04/04  Sud Carolina/USA
	Jason Scott Byram, 38, was executed.  (EN)
	23/04/04  Sri Lanka
	Amnesty protests Sri Lanka death penalty (at present it is considered as abolitionist in practice).  (EN)
	23/04/04  Illinois/USA
	Community of Sant'Egidio - Our interview with Rev. D. Kantzavelos, President of Illinois Coalition Against The Death Penalty.  (EN-IT)
	21/04/04  Vaticano-Filippine
	The Pope urges Filipino Govt., by means of the new ambassador, to avoid to resort to capital punishment. (EN-IT)
	21/04/04  New Mexico/USA
	Bill Pelke, with Friends of Journey of Hope and some former inmates on death row: "When the state kills, it kills in your name and it kills in my name, and I don't won't anybody killed in my name".  (EN)
	19/04/04  Alabama/USA
	Esther Brown has pushed for death penalty moratorium forr many years. At the beginning she was alone.  (EN)
	19/04/04  USA
	Is Lethal injection uncostitutional? High Court examines the most commonly used method of execution.  (EN)
	17/04/04  Amnesty International
	Report of Amnesty International: The death penalty worldwide, developments in 2003.  (EN)
	17/04/04  Arizona/USA
	An interview with Richard Rossi, on death row in Arizona.  (EN)
	15/04/04  Florida/USA
	Florida one step closer to halt the execution of minors.  (EN)
	15/04/04  Mexico
	Fox wants death penalty cases reviewed. Will U.S. follow the order of the High Court?  (EN)
	15/04/04  USA
	Over 900 executions carried out in US since 1976.  (EN)
	13/04/04  Malawi
	President Muluzi commuted the death sentences of 79 prisoners as Easter pardons.  (EN)
	13/04/04  Vietnam
	Nguyen Thi Ha, 48, was executed by firing squad for drug trafficking.  (EN)
	12/04/04  Texas/USA
	Federal appeals court overturns death sentence to Victor Saldano, Argentine laborer sentenced to death, "because he was hispanic". The Community of Sant'Egidio in Argentina had supported the case several times. Now a new (and fair) trial is expected.  (EN-ES)
	12/04/04  Cina
	Rahmutulla Islayil and Arken Yakuf were executed.  (EN)
	11/04/04  Zambia
	Zambian Church Seeks Total Ban on Death Penalty.  (EN)
	11/04/04  Mexico
	The International Court of Justice at The Hague has ruled that the US violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row.  (EN)
	11/04/04  Sud Africa
	'No single party can reinstate death penalty - said South African Human Rights Commissioner - and it would be necessary a two-thirds majority in the national assembly to amend the constitution.  (EN)
	10/04/04  USA
	Bishop Masters: Demonstration, Prayer Vigil to Highlight Issue of Juvenile Death Penalty Before U.S. Supreme Court.  (EN)
	10/04/04  Oklahoma/USA
	Hung Tranh Le, 37, Vietnamese refugee man, was executed.  (EN)
	10/04/04  Sud Africa
	Some parties ask for re-introduction of the death penalty. In the meanwhile 4 death-row inmates ask Court to free them because their detention is unconstitutional.  (EN)
	08/04/04  India
	Four secret agents from Pakistan were sentenced to death.  (EN)
	08/04/04  USA
	Amnesty launches an appeal to save Kelsey Patterson, a mentally ill man whose esecution is planned on May 18th..  (EN)
	08/04/04  USA
	US Presidential Elections: Kerry, a firm foe of death penalty.  (EN)
	05/04/04  Pakistan
	President stays execution of four prisoners on death row. (EN)
	05/04/04  USA
	Supreme Court to Consider Death Penalty for Teens.  (EN)
	05/04/04  Singapore
	2 Thai drug traffickers nabbed, face death penalty.  (EN)
	05/04/04  Cina
	Amnesty calls for moratorium on death penalty in China.   (EN)
	02/04/04  Comunit� di Sant'Egidio
	The speech of Tamara Chicunova, founder of the Uzbek Association "Mothers against the death penalty and torture", during the evening prayer of the Sant'Egidio Community in Brussels.   (IT)
	02/04/04  Vietnam
	2 Vietnamese men were executed.  (FR)
	02/04/04  Philippines
	Archbishop F. Capalla to discuss with President Arroyo about the death penalty.   (EN)
	01/04/04  Bhutan
	Capital punishment abolished.  (EN)
	01/04/04  Nevada/USA
	Lawrence Colwell Junior, 35, was executed. (IT-EN)
	01/04/04  Ohio/USA
	William Wickline, 52, was executed.  (IT-EN)