June 2004

	30/06/04   China
	11 people convicted of drug trafficking were executed ahead of International Anti-Drugs Day.  (EN)
	30/06/04   Arabia Saudita
	Govt. defends its death penalty.Beheadings acceptable in some contexts.  (EN)
	28/06/04   New York/USA
	New York's death penalty is dead, for now. Court declared the state's capital punishment law unconstitutional.  (IT-EN)
	28/06/04   USA
	US S.Court ruled that its 2002 decision requiring juries rather than judges to decide about death sentences, does not apply retroactively, clearing the way for the eventual execution of more than 100 death row.  (IT-EN)
	28/06/04   Libia-Bulgaria
	Bulgarian Medics in Libya May Be Left to Mercy of Infected Children's Parents: Official.  (EN)
	25/06/04   Italia
	"Italy relaunches the moratorium", President of Republic Ciampi says.  (EN)
	25/06/04   Filippine
	President, 2 days after her new election, sets date of execution. Reactions of the Catholics.  (EN)
	24/06/04   Indonesia
	Authorities may soon begin the execution of the many drug offenders currently on death row, the Nat. Police Chief said.  (EN)
	24/06/04   Council of Europe
	�Death Penalty � Beyond Abolition�, a book published by the Council of Europe.  (EN)
	21/06/04   Indonesia
	Italian man could be sentenced to death for drugs trafficking.  (IT)
	21/06/04   Cina
	Ma Jiajue, 22, was executed.  (EN)
	21/06/04   Pakistan
	High Court has commuted death sentence to Rehmat Shah Afridi, editor convicted for drugs pushing charges.  (EN)
	19/06/04  Virginia/USA    Urgent Appeals
	Mark Bailey - 34 years old - Sentenced to death.   (EN)
	19/06/04   Maryland/USA
	Steven Oken, 42, was executed.  (IT-EN)
	16/06/04   Philippines
	6 death row convicts get 90-day reprieve.  (EN)
	16/06/04   USA
	Lethal injection drug still under attack.  (EN)
	14/06/04   Indonesia
	Court sentences Brazilian to death.  (EN)
	14/06/04   Illinois/USA
	Gordon Steidl, after he was wrongly convicted, sentenced to die and after spending 17 years on death row, was freed.  (EN)
	14/06/04   Russia
	New reasons for Russia to ratify protocol on death penalty.  (EN)
	12/06/04   Maryland/USA
	Court Asked to Sentence Russian Spies to Death  (EN)
	10/06/04   Maryland/USA
	Cardinals ask governor to spare Oken from death penalty (execution scheduled: June 14-19).  (EN)
	10/06/04   Oklahoma/USA
	William G. Zuern, 45, and Robert Leroy Bryan, 63, were executed respectively.in Ohio and Oklahoma. (EN)
	10/06/04   Iran
	Supreme Court has lifted death sentence against Aghajari. (IT)
	09/06/04   Japan/USA
	Renny Cushing, the executive director of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, expresses how bad the death penalty is bad for victims' relatives. (IT)
	09/06/04   Vietnam
	Truong Van Cam, 57, was executed by firing squad.  (IT)
	09/06/04   Italy
	A matter of principle. The new book by A. Marchesi on the death penalty. (IT-EN)
	07/06/04   Iraq
	New justice minister: Iraq to restore death penalty, after June 30 sovereignty handover.   (IT-EN)
	07/06/04   Massachusetts/USA
	Laurence Adams, 51, was released after 30 years spent on death row.  (EN)
	06/06/04  Uzbekistan    Urgent Appeals
	Azizbek Karimov - 25 years old - Sentenced to death.   (EN)
	06/06/04   Kuwait
	Kuwait hangs 3 for raping and killing child.  (EN)
	06/06/04   Pennsylvania/USA
	Former death row inmate bears no ill will.  (EN)
	03/06/04   Tajikistan
	A further step towards moratorium: Lower House Passes bill proposed by the President.   (EN)
	03/06/04   Japan
	Five men could be executed in some days. Let us support the urgent appeal launched by Amnesty International Japan. (EN)
	03/06/04   Taiwan
	Cardinal Paul Shan has said: �The Church is working to get the death penalty abolished in Taiwan and to promote full respect for life at eve level of society.�   (IT-EN-FR-ES)
	03/06/04   Texas/USA
	After numerous protestes after execution of K. Petterson, the case of Walter Bell, mentally retarded, to return to Court.  (EN)
	03/06/04  Vietnam
	Six people were executed by firing squad.  (ES)