May 2004

	31/05/04  Kenya
	Music and dance at the High Court when six men sentenced to hang were set free by a two-judge appellate court.  (EN)
	31/05/04  Sud Carolina/USA
	James Neil Tucker was executed with electric chair.  (IT)
	31/05/04  Iran
	Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Is Unlikely to Hang Dissident Aghajari-Lawyer. (IT-EN)
	29/05/04  Urgent  Appeals
	Now you can send our urgent appeals on-line, directly from our web-site!
	29/05/04  Florida/USA
	John Blackwelder, 49, was executed after a 24-hours-stay.  (IT-EN)
	27/05/04  USA
	Supreme Court to hear arguments about whether federal law should continue to permit executions of 16 /17-year-olds convicted of murder.  (EN)
	27/05/04  Uganda
	Fr. Agostoni and his 43 years in Uganda, close to the inmates on death row.  (IT-EN-FR)
	24/05/04  Florida/USA
	Florida Plans to Mark Death Penalty's Return with execution of a volunteer.  (EN)
	24/05/04  Uganda
	Govt. to reduce crimes punishable with the death penalty. Waiting for the abolition.  (EN)
	24/05/04  Kazakistan
	President Nazarbayev favors full abolition of death penalty.  (EN)
	24/05/04  Texas/USA
	Mental health experts have evaluated Scott Panetti and found him competent to be executed.  (EN)
	24/05/04  Massachusetts/USA
	Archbishop of Boston Sean O'Malley denounces governor's death penalty proposal.   (EN)
	23/05/04  Italia
	On May 26th in Mantua the presentation of the Forum of the Cities against the death penalty.  (EN)
	23/05/04  Texas/USA-Honduras
	Honduras Asks Texas to Commute 2 Sentences.  (EN)
	23/05/04  Birmania
	Burmese Court Overturns Death Sentence For 9 Prisoners.  (EN-ES)
	22/05/04  USA/Honduras
	Cardinal Oscar A. Rodriguez Madariaga urges US to end the death penalty and supports the effort to remove 2 Honduras men from death row in Texas.   (EN)
	22/05/04  United Nations
	United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to urge Libyan Govt. to avoid 6 esecutions.  (EN)
	21/05/04  Sudan    Urgent Appeal
	Alakor (Madina) Lual Deng - Sentenced to death by stoning.   (EN)
	21/05/04  Africa
	Africa: Moving towards abolition of the death penalty.  (EN)
	19/05/04  Texas/USA
	Kelsey Patterson, 50, who was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, was executed. (IT-EN)
	19/05/04  USA
	High court justice: U.S. would be better off without death penalty. (EN)
	17/05/04  Oklahoma/USA-Messico
	Just days before the scheduled execution of Osvaldo Torres, a Mexican foreign national on Oklahoma’s death row, Governor Brad Henry granted a request for clemency.   (IT-EN)
	17/05/04  Texas/USA
	James Allridge to be executed on August 26th. We renew the invitation to send our urgent appeal.   (EN)
	17/05/04  Zambia
	Fight to Abolish the Death Penalty.  (EN)
	17/05/04  Iran
	Iranian dissident refuses to appeal new death sentence.  (IT-EN)
	14/05/04  Messico/USA
	Fox Urges Oklahoma Not to Execute Mexican.  (EN)
	14/05/04  Tajikistan
	President Rakhmonov to announce moratorium on capital punishment.  (EN)
	14/05/04  Japan
	Gov't urged to disclose more info on executions.  (EN)
	13/05/04  World Coalition
	Second Congress of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty in October in Montreal.  (FR)
	10/05/04  Zambia
	President Mwanawasa commuted 15 death sentences.   (FR)
	08/05/04  Libia
	After the encouraging words of Gheddafi on the capital puinishment, 6 Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor to death "deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the deadly HIV virus". The reactions in the world. (IT-EN)
	06/05/04  Nigeria
	On internet a false appeal for Amina, but that's a spoof story. She was acquitted definitively in 2003.  (IT-EN)
	06/05/04  ONU
	Former Illinois Governor Ryan at UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva launched a new appeal for the world moratorium of executions.  (EN)
	05/05/04  Sud Africa
	No Constitutional Change In Sight, no reintroduction of the death penalty: Mbeki.   (EN)
	01/05/04  Indonesia
	Illegal loggers will be punished with the death penalty. (EN)