News from the world about the Death Penalty
Updated January 15, 2003
The Salt Lake Tribune
Jan 15, 2003
Gov. Ryan's "big mistake"
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jan/01152003/commenta/20254.asp
ABC 7 Chicago
Jan 14, 2003
After Gov. Ryan, more death penalty in Illinois - USA
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/011403_ns_deathrow.html
CNSNEWS
Jan 8, 2003
False "innocent" list
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200301%5CNAT20030108b.html
Guardian
Dec 23, 2002
Jamaica will bring back hanging
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,864626,00.html
BBC News
Dec 18, 2002
India and the death penalty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2586611.stm
Interfax
Nov 30, 2002
"The new People's Party, which calls itself center-left, will consistently campaign for Russia to bring back the death penalty..."
http://www.interfax.ru/one_news_en.html?lang=EN&tz=0&tz_format=MSK&id_news=5608589
IcWales
Nov 29, 2002
"Newspaper readers have backed calls for a return of the death penalty for child murderers...."
The Diamondback
Nov 18, 2002
"Republican Governor-elect Robert Ehrlich will lift the moratorium on state executions after he takes power in January..."
http://www.inform.umd.edu/News/Diamondback/archives/2002/11/18/news1.html
CNN
Nov 1, 2002
"Two Saudi men convicted of murder were beheaded Friday, the Interior Ministry said..."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/11/01/saudi.beheading.ap/index.html
Fox 7 news
Nov 1, 2002
"Illinois' death penalty debate is one step closer to resolution..."
http://www.wtvw.com/Global/story.asp?S=995368&nav=7CPEC8VZ
ABCnews
Oct 25, 2002
Officials Want Death Penalty in U.S. Sniper Case
"With two sniper suspects behind bars on Friday, officials from Maryland, Virginia and Alabama said the death penalty was warranted in the three-week shooting rampage that killed 10 people and wounded three in and around the U.S. capital..."
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20021025_778.html
ABCnews
Oct 21, 2002
Supreme Court Won't Review Juvenile Death Penalty
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20021021_267.html
stuffnews
Oct 18, 2002
"Indonesia's President
Megawati Sukarnoputri plans to issue an emergency anti-terrorism decree today
that will carry a maximum penalty of death, the justice minister says..."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2083653a12,00.html
Japantoday
Oct 10, 2002
"Prosecutors sought the death penalty Thursday for Mitsuhiro Kobayashi, who was indicted on charges of murdering five people..."
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=233889
ABCnews
Oct 11, 2002
"A former leader of the doomsday cult that carried out a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 12 people, was sentenced to death Friday, a court official said..."
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20021011_216.html
The Philippine Star
Oct 1, 2002
"President Arroyo has indefinitely suspended the execution of death row
convicts until Congress decides whether to repeal the death penalty law..."
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200210010405.htm
The Japan Times
Oct 1, 2002
Killer to hang for strangling woman while on parole
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20021001a5.htm
The Japan Times
Sept 21, 2002
"A 38-year-old man was sentenced Friday to death for murdering five people and injuring 10 others in a 1999 rampage at JR Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture..."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020921b1.htm
The Independent's
Sept 19, 2002
Former colonies seek to overthrow British veto on death penalty
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=334582
Swissinfo
Sept 18, 2002
"Japan has
hanged two convicted criminals, its first executions in almost nine months..."
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=1343443
Ledger-Enquirer
Sept 2, 2002
"The president pro tem of the Alabama Senate wants to make sure that a woman convicted of killing a 13-year-old girl is never released from prison, even though her death sentence was commuted by former Gov. Fob James..."
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/3986227.htm
Independent online
Sept 1, 2002
"A Pakistani woman
gang-raped by four men on the orders of a traditional village jury said on
Sunday she was satisfied with the death sentences handed down to six of the men
involved in the rape and in the jury decision..."
http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=ct20020901201026668G5261866&set_id=1
The Detroit News
Sept 1, 2002
Michigan: "Push for execution vote is forming..."
http://www.detnews.com/2002/metro/0209/01/c01-576241.htm
Houston Chronicle
Aug 24, 2002
"Under tough questioning from reporters here, Gov. Rick Perry insisted Friday that "Texas is not a racist state" and defended last week's execution of a Mexican citizen..."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1547006
BBC News
Aug 20, 2002
"The death penalty should be "available" to the UK justice system for use in the most heinous of crimes, according Ann Widdecombe..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2204738.stm
Ic Wales
Aug 19, 2002
"The uncle of a schoolgirl killed in one of the country's most notorious child murder cases wants to bring back the death penalty..."
News24
Aug 9, 2002
"The murder and possible rape of former first lady Marike de Klerk strengthened the New National Party's case for the reinstatement of the death penalty..."
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/WesternCape/0,1113,2-7-830_1239909,00.html
Japan Times
Aug 9, 2002
"Prosecutors sought the death penalty Thursday for a moneylender in Saitama Prefecture accused of murdering two people and attempting to murder a third for life insurance money..."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020809a3.htm
San Francisco Chronicle
July 19, 2002
"The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill Thursday that is meant to raise the quality of lawyers for indigent defendants in capital cases and make DNA testing more readily available to death row inmates, thereby minimizing the chances that innocent people will be executed..."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/07/19/MN11907.DTL
July 17, 2002
"A 39-year-old man convicted of gunning down a state trooper in 1987 was put to death by injection Wednesday in Mississippi's first execution in 13 years..."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1498779
BBC
July 16, 2002
"The United States has welcomed the conviction in Pakistan of four Islamic militants on charges of abducting and murdering US journalist Daniel Pearl..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_2130000/2130938.stm
People's daily
July 13, 2002
"A gang of 66 repeat offenders received heavy sentences including the death penalty on Friday in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, for a series of crimes they committed over the past decade..."
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200207/13/eng20020713_99641.shtml
abcNEWS
June 30, 2002
"Kuwait hanged three Bangladeshis on Sunday for murdering a Sri Lankan maid and then allowed the public to view the criminals' bodies..."
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20020630_61.html
Gulf News
June 29, 2002
Death for two rapists upheld
"The death penalty handed down by the Ras Al Khaimah Sharia Court to two men who raped a woman in her house was upheld yesterday by the Sharia Appeal Court..."
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=55991
The Japan Times
June 27, 2002
"Aum Shinrikyo officer Niimi given death sentence for role in 26 murders..."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020627a1.htm
smh
June 27, 2002
"China marked a UN anti-drug day by executing 64 people accused of drug crimes, officials and state media said yesterday..."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/26/1023864607466.html
Xinhuanet
June 26, 2002
"JAKARTA, Indonesian President Demands Maximum Punishment for Drug Criminals."
"I am happy to notice that law enforcement here is getting more courageous. Indonesian judges now have courage to sentence illegal drug dealers to death penalty..."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-06/26/content_458531.htm
CNN
June 25, 2002
"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that executions of mentally retarded criminals are 'cruel and unusual punishment,' violating the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution..."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/20/scotus.executions/index.html
CNN
June 24, 2002
"Only juries can impose death penalty, Supreme Court rules..."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/24/scotus.executions/index.html
Herald Tribune
June 28, 2002
Comments on...
"...two rulings on capital punishment by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent days..."
http://www.iht.com/articles/62801.html
CNN
June 21, 2002
"Burundi court sentences 11 to die."
"A court has sentenced 11 people to death and 16 others to life imprisonment for taking part in massacres that followed the 1993 assassination of Burundi's first democratically elected leader, the justice minister said Friday..."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/06/21/burundi.death.sentence.ap/index.html
CNN
June 5, 2002
"LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- An Islamic high court has postponed the execution of a woman convicted of sex outside marriage..."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/06/04/nigeria.execution.ap/index.html
BBC
28 March, 2002
"US prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged over the 11 September attacks..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1899000/1899320.stm
BBC
Febrary 15, 2002
The Russian parliament support the death penalty
"Russia's parliament has approved by a large majority a non-binding resolution against the abolition of the death penalty..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1823000/1823556.stm
http://w1.155.telia.com/~u15509119