CrimLaw

Death Cases - Outside the States:

(1) The Mexican Army sentenced a man to death for killing his commander but the President commuted the sentence.

(2) India: "[T]the divison bench comprising of Justice B Sethna and Justice J Vora ordered that the convict should not be shown any form of sympathy else, it will be a misplacement of justice."

(3) "Death penalty would not be abolished in Nigeria, 'we cannot do without capital punishment,' the minister of Internal Affairs has said."

(4) South Africa: "Rapists infected with HIV and Aids, who know they are infected, can expect to face charges of attempted murder or even murder."

(5) Indonesia:

The speaker of Indonesia's top legislative body on Thursday urged the death penalty for convicted terrorists and said such sentences should not be subject to appeal.

"This is no ordinary crime," Amien Rais told a group of foreign reporters in Jakarta. "Once it is proven that terrorists committed the crime, we have to banish them from the earth and the sooner the better."

(6) Japanese prosecutors want to prosecute a 19 year old and a 16 year old for murder.

Prosecutors said . . . that the university student's acts had been driven by anger toward his mother, who had advised him on how to deal with his insomnia, an act that he felt to be patronizing.

(7) "Bai Dezhen, a female drug addict from Beijing, was executed Friday for robbing a 78-year-old grandmother who refused to give her drug money, who she then killed."

(8) Morocco has jailed 9 men for being involved in the murder of a Jewish shopkeeper.

(9) Trinidad & Tobago: How the Privy Council interacts with Commonwealth countries as to the death penalty.

(10) The President of the Phillipines will allow the death penalty for kidnappers and drug lords.