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28/02/02
Serbia |
| Serb
Parliament abolishes death penalty.
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27/02/02
China |
| Amnesty
International Reports: China Prepares to Execute 5 Christians.
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26/02/02
Georgia/USA |
| Georgia
Spares Life and commutes death sentence of Alexander Williams,
Condemned Mentally Ill Man.
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26/02/02
Italy/Nigeria |
| March
8th 2002, Women Day for Safiya.
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26/02/02
Turkey |
| Turkish
government divided over lifting death penalty.
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26/02/02
Lebanon |
| Rights
body signs Strasbourg anti-death penalty declaration.
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26/02/02
USA |
| Indecent
Executions - Considering death row's mentally retarded inmates.
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25/02/02
Turkey |
| Turks
Consider Lifting Death Penalty.
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25/02/02
USA |
| Killing costs.
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24/02/02
Italy/Nigeria |
| Italian
football champions play for Safiya.
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24/02/02
Texas/USA |
| Texan
newspapers and the case of Andrea Yates: From maternal instincts
to killer impulses: Hallucinations, delusions, despair may torment
mentally ill mothers who murder.
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24/02/02
USA |
| National
consensus may decide Atkins' fate.
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23/02/02
Arizona/USA |
| Arizona
Newspaper Urges Suspension of the Death Penalty.
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23/02/02
Texas/USA |
| According
to the Prosecutor Andrea Yates, was sick, but sane enough to know
that she had done wrong.
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23/02/02
Virginia/USA |
| A
House of Delegates panel voted stop the executions of mentally
retarded until the U.S. Supreme Court decides.
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23/02/02
Libya |
| 2
Islamic leaders sentenced to death.
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23/02/02
Fiji |
| Fiji
Leader Commutes Death Sentence.
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22/02/02
Texas/USA |
| Thomas
Miller El was granted a stay by Supreme Court.
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22/02/02
Council of Europe |
| Ministers
of Council of Europe sign a new proptocol for the abolition of
death penalty in any circumstance.
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22/02/02
Russia |
| President
Putin says death penalty is useless.
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22/02/02
Turkey |
| 4
men sentenced to death for marxism.
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22/02/02 European
Union |
| EU
Ministers in search of an agreement with US about extradition of
terrorists.
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22/02/02
USA |
| The
O'Connor Factor - Justice Plays Pivotal Role on High Court (The
Washington Post)
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22/02/02
Nigeria |
| President
Obasanjo looks with confidence to the future of Safyia.
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21/02/02
Georgia/USA |
| Mentally
Ill Juvenile Offender Receives Stay of Execution.
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21/02/02
Virginia/
USA |
| Earl
Washington was freed from death row, just one year ago.
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21/02/02
Illinois/
USA |
| Two
candidates running for the governor against death penalty.
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21/02/02 USA |
| Follow-up
of Major Death Penalty Study Examines Causes of Error in Capital
Cases (the whole text is available on internet).
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21/02/02
Ohio/USA |
| John
Byrd was executed
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20/02/02
Nigeria |
| The
hope for Safyia: her
voice alive – RadioRai, available on internet: http://rainet.tiscali.it/esteri/article/20020218/9738.html
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20/02/02
Georgia/USA |
| Alexander
Williams, chronic paranoid schizophrenic, will be executed in a
few days.
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20/02/02
Texas/USA |
| Race
Is Key in Death Penalty Appeal, says Jim Marcus, Miller’s lawyer.
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20/02/02
Ohio/USA |
| Upcoming
Execution of John Byrd Raises Troubling Questions.
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20/02/02
Georgia/USA |
| Prominent
Organizations Oppose Execution of Alexander Williams, Mentally Ill
Juvenile Offender (scheduled on Feb. 20th)
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18/02/02
Russia |
| Russia
Lawmakers Urge Death Penalty
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18/02/02
Ohio/USA |
| Judges
confirm death sentence: the real killer confesses but it is too
late to save an innocent man.
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16/02/02
Texas/USA |
| Thomas
Miller EL - Inmate facing execution may get a reprieve.
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16/02/02
Sudan |
| International
Newspapapers talk about the the incredible story of the woman
sentenced to be stoned to death and the happy end repoted by the
Community of Sant’Egidio.
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16/02/02
Fiji |
| The
government has said it wants to abolish the death penalty.
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15/02/02
Texas/USA |
| Texas
Prepares for Execution of Thomas Miller El, Despite Claims of
Racial Discrimination.
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15/02/02
Florida/USA |
| The
crisis of system: U.S. Supreme Court could overturn about 800
death sentences.
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15/02/02
Illinois/USA |
| A
federal appeals court overturned the death sentence
David Ghent, who spent 23 years on death row and whose execution
was scheduled in some days.
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14/02/02
California/USA |
| A
federal appeals court overturned the death
sentence David Ghent, who spent 23 years on death row and
whose execution was scheduled in some days
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14/02/02
USA |
| Can
Catholics Decree Death? - Justice Antonin Scalia has let the cat
loose
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14/02/02
Louisiana/USA |
| The
execution of Leslie Dale Martin was called off by the U.S. Supreme
Court less than half an hour before he was scheduled to die
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14/02/02 Jordan |
| Other
three executions
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13/02/02
Virginia/USA |
| Panel
rejects ban on executing mentally retarded
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|
13/02/02
USA |
| Controversy
On Death Penalty - Can judges decide to never impose it? Judges
and Capital Punishment
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|
|
13/02/02
Texas/USA |
| Texan
newspapers on the case of Johnny Paul Penry
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|
13/02/02
Italia - Florida/USA |
| Our
interview with Dale Recinella, the lay Catholic chaplain for
Florida’s death-row and spiritual advisor to several inmates
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13/02/02
Maryland/USA |
| Md.
court delays Oken's execution
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12/02/02
Malaysia |
| Drug
trafficker gets death penalty
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12/02/02
Florida/USA |
| Justices'
review of death penalty met with shock
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12/02/02
France |
| Le
Pen wants the re-introduction of death penalty
|
|
|
11/02/02
Texas/USA |
| Updates
about the case of Thomas Miller El , whose execution is scheduled
on Feb. 21st - (see our appeal)
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11/02/02
Florida/USA |
| Florida
Death Penalty Under Scrutiny
|
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11/02/02
Jordan |
| 2
men, a Jordanian and an Egyptian national, were hanged
|
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11/02/02 Bangladesh |
| Government
proposes capital punishment for the men found guilty of
disfiguring women with acid
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11/02/02
USA |
| Scalia
again on death penalty
|
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10/02/02
Florida/USA |
|
Another
Florida Execution Stayed by Supreme Court
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10/02/02
Louisiana/USA |
|
Ex-guard:
Death Row inmates 'have no remorse'
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09/02/02
Sudan/Italia |
|
Abok
Alfa Akok. Governement of Sudan to the Community of Sant'Egidio:
“Death penalty has been reversed by the Upper Court"
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09/02/02
Florida/USA |
|
“This
is a judicially imposed moratorium on the death penalty in Florida,"
said death penalty opponent Michael Radelet, a sociology professor
and leading authority on capital punishment in Florida
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09/02/02
Missouri/USA |
|
Michael
Owsley, 40, was executed
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08/02/02
Sudan
Urgent Appeal |
|
Abok
Alfa Akok, 18, a Sudanese Dinka woman is pregnant and she was
sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery
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08/02/02
USA |
|
2
cases, 2 races, 2 decisions on death penalty (the black voices
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08/02/02
Yemen |
|
Two
Yemeni men have been executed by firing squad
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08/02/02
USA |
|
Scalia
Questions Church's Position
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08/02/02
Japan |
|
On
Japan's death row, any day could be the last
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08/02/02
Russia |
|
“Russia
would be committing a grave mistake if it reintroduced the death
penalty”, said Anatloj Pristavkin, an adviser to President Vladimir
Putin and the former head of a pardons commission
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|
07/02/02
Italia/Nigeria |
|
192
inmates in the prison of Rome sign the appeal of the Community
of Sant’Egidio to save Safiya
|
|
|
07/02/02
Virginia/USA |
|
Virginia
needs a moratorium on the death penalty. A famous legislator and
death penalty supporter explains why
|
|
|
07/02/02
Kuwait |
|
Kuwaiti
Cop Sentenced to Death
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|
07/02/02
USA |
|
Legislative
updates in some States
|
|
|
07/02/02
Oklahoma/USA |
|
David
Wayne Woodruff, 42, was executed
|
|
|
07/02/02
California/USA |
|
The
killing routine:The unusual report of a journalist who witnessed
the execution of Stephen Wayne Anderson at San Quentin
|
|
|
07/02/02
China |
|
12
executions in few days
|
|
|
06/02/02
Russia |
|
Pravda:
death penalty in Russia: for and against
|
|
|
06/02/02
Sudan |
|
Abok
Alfa Akok, 18, was convicted to be stoned to death
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06/02/02
Illinois/USA |
|
Illinois
to Reform Death Penalty
|
|
|
05/02/02
California/USA |
|
Federal
Appeals Court commuted death sentence of Benjamin Wai Silva
|
|
|
05/02/02
Texas/USA |
|
Randal
Hafdahl was executed
|
|
|
05/02/02
Saudi Arabia |
|
Saudi
man was beheaded
|
|
|
05/02/02
USA |
|
Death
penalty opposition seen in keeping with church tradition
|
|
|
04/02/02
Russia |
|
“Death
penalty has to be abolished, as life sentence is enough, even
for those who committed the most heinous crimes”, said Minister
of Justice Iuri Chiaka
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|
|
04/02/02
USA |
|
US
Supreme Court Justice Scalia rejects church view on death penalty
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02/02/02
Texas/USA Urgent
Appeal |
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02/02/02
Oklahoma/USA |
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02/02/02
California/USA |
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01/02/02
Nigeria |
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01/02/02
Texas/USA |
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01/02/02
Russia |
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