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NO to the Death Penalty
International Campaign
       Comunità di Sant'Egidio

November 2003

26/11/03  Maryland/USA

Supreme Court gives the OK to executions. Towards the end of the moratorium? (IT-EN)

26/11/03  India

Man sentenced to death for killing wife. Maybe the moratorium will save him. (IT)

24/11/03  South Africa

Court commutes Japanese man's death sentence. (EN)

24/11/03  Vietnam

13 public executions in 2 days. (IT)

21/11/03  Sudan

15 Men Sentenced to Death by Hanging Following an Unfair Trial, the appeal of OMCT. (EN)

21/11/03  Iran

4 men sentenced to death by stoning  (FR)

18/11/03  Iran

Man sentenced to hanging, eight times.   (IT)

17/11/03  Etiopia

Officer of Menghistu was sentenced to death.  (FR)

17/11/03  Ghana

Capital Punishment in Ghana: Dead or Alive?  (EN)

17/11/03  Sudan

14 death sentences.  (IT)

15/11/03  Nigeria

Yunusa Rafin Chiyawa acquitted from sentence to death by stoning (see our urgent appeal)  (EN)

15/11/03  North Carolina/USA

John Dennis Daniels, 46, was executed. The victim's family had asket to stop the execution.  (EN)

15/11/03  Texas/USA

Anti-death-penalty activists march down Congress Avenue in Austin. Many start to think the moratorium is possible.  (EN)

14/11/03  North Carolina/USA

We support the appeal launched by the MVFR to stop the execution of John Dennis Daniels (exec. scheduyled on Nov. 14th).  (EN)

14/11/03  Ciad

Ninth man executed by a firing squad. (EN)

14/11/03  Georgia/USA  North Carolina/USA

James Brown was executed in Georgia on Nov. 4th. Joseph Keel was executed in North Carolina on Nov. 7th. (EN)

14/11/03  Iran/UE

In Brussels Iranian Govt. and UE meet on the death penalty and human rights. (EN)

14/11/03  Thailand

Amnesty urges govt to axe death penalty. (EN)

13/11/03  Marocco/Danimarca

Danish Govt. urges Maroc to stop the execution of Omar Maarouf, a Moroccan-Danish man. (FR)

13/11/03  Yemen

Khamis Saeed Abdullah was executed by firing squad.  (EN)

12/11/03  Italy

Italian Govt. will not present at UN General Assembly EU resolution for moratorium. (IT)

12/11/03  Kuwait

The death sentence of Sami Al-Moutairi, 25, was commuted into life sentence. (EN)

10/11/03  Ohio/USA

Ohio Journey of Hope...  From Violence to Healing September 26 - October 12, 2003 (EN)

08/11/03  European Union

European Parliament urges European Union to present at UN a resolution for a moratorium. (IT)

08/11/03  Saudi Arabia

The International Conference on the human rights will take place in Ryad. Govt. explains its "case", while the executions go on. (IT)

08/11/03  USA

Execution of inmate violates due process. Should a person be executed for a crime committed while insane or schizophrenic?  (EN)

07/11/03  Ciad

Seven men executed by firing squad.  (IT)

07/11/03  Alabama/USA

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of David Larry Nelson, just a 3 hours before the time scheduled.  (EN)

07/11/03  Iraq

Iraqi tribunal stirs fierce debate on death penalty.  (EN)

07/11/03  Taiwan

President vows to put an end to the death penalty.  (EN)

07/11/03  Ethiopia

Ethiopian Govt. called from human rights organisations to abolish the death penalty.  (EN)

06/11/03  Texas/USA

Long pause in the death penalty: three months without executions.  (IT-EN)

06/11/03  Amnesty International/Unione Europea/Cina

Amnesty Urges EU Against China Policy. (EN)

04/11/03  Iran

Afsaneh Noruzi was spared from execution (see our urgent appeal). The head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahrudi, ordered that the death sentence be lifted. (IT-EN)

04/11/03  Missouri/USA

Missouri executes man convicted in two stabbing deaths in 1997.  (IT-EN)

03/11/03  Singapore

Human rights group urges Govt. to ban the death penalty. (EN)

03/11/03  Nigeria

Briton given death sentence for killing partner (EN)