December 2002

	31/12/02  North Carolina/USA
	Death Row Inmate Granted New Trial; Critical Evidence Withheld.    (EN)
	31/12/02  China
	11 executions.     (IT-FR)
	30/12/02  Yemen
	Maj. Saeed al-Areef and Yehya al-Sadiq were executed by a firing squad.     (EN)
	30/12/02  USA
	DPIC's 2002 Year End Report Traces Year of Change in Capital Punishment.     (EN)
	29/12/02  Illinois/USA
	Ryan Pardons Two Men sentenced to death.    (EN)
	29/12/02  Vietnam
	2 counterfeiters, Tran Hoai Nam (27) and Nguyen Van Phi (28), were executed by firing squad.     (FR)
	29/12/02  USA
	Clemency Often Used in the Past to Remedy      (EN)
	28/12/02  Iran
	Iran stops stoning of women adulterers and could abolish this kind of executions.   (IT-EN)
	28/12/02  Italia/Tibet
	After the intervention of the EU, the Italian Parliament too intervenes in favour of the two Tibetans sentenced to death.   (EN)
	28/12/02  Illinois/USA
	'Dead men' walk for cause of justice.   (EN)
	27/12/02  India
	Kashmir anger over death sentences.   (EN)
	27/12/02  USA
	Kerry traces his shift on the death penalty.   (EN)
	26/12/02  Italy
	The Christmas cover of the Catholic Magazine Famiglia Cristiana regards Amina.   (IT)
	26/12/02  Maryland/USA
	Death-penalty protest focuses on new Gov. Ehrlich.   (EN)
	26/12/02  Texas/USA
	James Collier, 55, was executed.   (IT)
	25/12/02  Japan
	Seijiro Yamano could be executed bifore the end of this year.   Urgent Appeal.    (IT-EN)
	25/12/02  Texas/USA
	Texas Faulted in Death Row Report.   (EN)
	24/12/02  Italy-Nigeria
	Amina, a penalty without a crime.   (IT)
	24/12/02  Oklahoma/USA
	Ernest Marvin Carter, 36, was executed.   (IT-EN)
	24/12/02  USA
	Former Federal Chief Judge Calls Death Penalty "Legalized Murder".    (EN)
	23/12/02  Japan
	Masumi Hayashi, the so-called "21st century witch" very probably will be execute.    (EN)
	22/12/02  Illinois/USA
	Murder Victims' Families Ask Gov. Ryan to Grant Clemency Requests.    (EN)
	21/12/02  Congo
	Amnesty International: 115 people face imminent execution.    (EN-FR)
	21/12/02  USA
	Less death sentences and less Death Row Population.    (IT-EN)
	20/12/02  Jamaica
	Amnesty International criticised the desire to bring back the gallows.    (EN)
	20/12/02  Angola/Nigeria
	Silent rally of women to save Amina.    (EN)
	19/12/02  Illinois/USA
	Death penalty opponents, exonerated inmates gather in Chicago.    (EN)
	19/12/02  Zambia
	Child Killer to Hang.    (EN)
	19/12/02  Texas/USA
	Press conference to mark 20 years of lethal injection executions.    (EN)
	18/12/02  Congo
	Several NGOs appeal to President against the death penalty.    (FR)
	18/12/02  Mississipi/USA
	Jessie Derrell Williams, 51, was executed.    (EN)
	17/12/02  Italy
	Executions? It isn't worth. A performance against the death penalty, in Florence.    (IT)
	17/12/02  Singapore
	Anthony Ler, 35, was executed.An Australian man could face the imminent execution.    (EN)
	17/12/02  Russia/Council of Europe
	Council of Europe invites Russia to abolish death penalty by law.    (IT)
	16/12/02  Italy
	President Conso expresses his concern because a Syrian man was sent to Syria, in spite of his death sentence.    (IT)
	16/12/02  Alabama - Oklahoma/USA
	Anthony Johnson (46) and Jay Wesley Neill (37) were executed.    (IT-EN)
	16/12/02  Cina
	Two Tibetans sentenced to death.    (EN)
	15/12/02  USA
	The Augustinians join the Community of Sant'Egidio in the research of funds for the legal counsel of Dominique Green.    (EN)
	15/12/02  Oklahona/USA
	Jerry Lynn McCracken, 35, wsa executed.    (IT-EN)
	14/12/02  Italy
	Liliana Cavani and Mario Marazziti will present the book of Idanna Pucci"The Lady of Sing Sing. NO to the Death Penalty".    (IT)
	14/12/02  Florida/USA
	Linroy Bottosom, 63, mentally retarded, was executed.    (IT-EN)
	14/12/02  California/USA
	A Third Reprieve. One of most notorious death-row inmates wants to be spared again.    (EN)
	12/12/02  Iran
	Man hanged in the square.    (IT)
	12/12/02  Texas/USA
	Study: Legal aid deficient in appeals. Report says judges fail in appointments of adequate lawyers in death penalty cases.    (EN)
	12/12/02  Zimbabue
	Man Gets Death Penalty.   (EN)
	11/12/02  Texas/USA      Urgent Appeal
	Granville Riddle -  USA - Texas - 33 years old - Sentenced to death.   (EN)
	11/12/02  Ucraina
	Parliament approves European Protocol on human rights and death penalty.   (IT)
	11/12/02  Jordan
	Yasser Mohammed Abu Shinar, 37, Palestinian, was hanged.   (EN)
	10/12/02  USA
	Community of Sant'Egidio -  Interview with Peter Neufeld, founder of Innocence Project. Several inmates were exonerated thanks to his DNA tests.   (IT-EN)
	10/12/02  North Carolina/USA
	Ernest Basden, 49 anni, è stato messo a morte.   (IT-EN)
	10/12/02  Illinois/USA
	21 Retired Judges Endorse Broad Use of Clemency Power in Capital Cases.   (IT-EN)
	09/12/02  Uzbekistan
	Human Rights Watch launches an appeal to save Iskandar Khudoiberganov.   (EN)
	09/12/02  Texas/USA
	Leonard Rojas, 52, was executed.   (IT-EN)
	08/12/02  USA
	Supreme Court refuses to consider juvenile death row case.   (EN)
	07/12/02  Jamaica
	Jamaican prime minister calls for resuming death penalty as part of anti-crime plan.   (IT-EN)
	07/12/02  USA
	Executions End All Chance for Change.   (EN)
	06/12/02  Iran
	Lawyer Appeals Iran Dissident's Death Sentence   (IT-EN)
	06/12/02  Florida/USA
	Execution halted for DNA testing. Bush rapped on stay of death.   (IT-EN)
	05/12/02  USA
	The death penalty is too flawed to fix - get rid of it (Amnesty International).   (EN)
	04/12/02  Florida/USA
	"The death penalty is useless". Her father was murdered and she too was stabbed. (Interview with Suezann Bosler)  (EN)
	03/12/02  Iran/USA
	United States Calls Iran Death Sentence Outrageous.   (EN)
	03/12/02  Nevada/USA
	Commutation Granted to a Mentally retarded man on death row.   (EN)
	02/12/02  The Cities for Life
	1st  World Day against the Death Penalty -  The Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty - Press Review
	02/12/02  Giappone
	Japan moves towards a debate on ending the death penalty.   (EN)
	02/12/02  Tennesee/USA
	Federal appeals court ordered to review death sentence and to consider DNA evidence.   (EN)